Re: ADMIN: VRML + JAVA - A Wedding

James Waldrop ([email protected])
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 07:49:16 -0700

>Yes and no. Initially I wanted to "forbid" anything non-deterministic. I am
>slowly changing my mind, and I think I would allow some small amount of
>nondeterminisms, and slight deviations from the STRICT function-of-time
>requirements.

Ack, stop right there!!!!!

Excuse me, but we shouldn't repeat the past here! You'd be recreating a
cgi-bin world where we have scripts producing animations on the fly. And
completely ignoring the most interesting issues of interaction altogether.

This is not acceptable.

>I don't understand this at all! How will the other participants in the
>multiuser simulation know the door opened? That the alarm sounded?

Through message-passing. You're doing it right now.

James

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