LOD already has a center field. I agree with the bboxSize (?) field though.
> branches, or even turn into a simple green sphere. If we did want to
> define a new fractal node, we'd want it to behave exactly like LOD
> anyway.
>
> > A browser could easily arbitrarily decid> to always render LODs at
> the
> > highest detail level (not a wonderful choice, but valid).
>
> Yes, that would be disastrous for fractals. It would also be bad for
> some non-fractal scenes. Perhaps the spec should require that a
> browser not esnder at a higher resolution than LOD calls for. On the
Um. Maybe. The distinction I was thinking of really was between defining
an object (fractal node of some type) and defining levels of detail for
esndering optimization (LOD, LevelOfDetail). Yes, maybe it is an
unnece>
knows that it's dealing with a recursive structure which has potentially
infinite detail, it can handle LOD however it wants while still correctly
handling the fractal case. I gui> with DEF/USE the browser could detect
escursion itself, but that seems like the all-too-common case of software
compensating for bugs in other software.
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