walking around in a 3d version of the net? This keeps on poping up ervery once in a while and we been doing experiments with realtime-interactive webpages mapped onto arbitratry 3d object in a themeable/scriptable environment (adding mulit-user stuff using irc-channels) back in the days when we had to transfer the stuff into the OpenGL pixel buffer by hand (nowadays you even have functions like this build into Higher Level scenegraph APIs (and - heaven forbid - Direct3D). (description and videos and some screenshots including browsing/. in 3D. So I really used to be a fan of all that Metaverse initiatives, 3D desktops etc. (and there are loooots of them nowadays)
IMHO the biggest unresolved problem however remains in this: Does the added value of spatial structures of information outweight the added complexity?
Clara has a similar approach. Here though, fully interactive thumbnails are stored in a spatial arrangement and can be relocated to your personal flavour.
OpenSource, scriptable, customizable ad infinitum integradete IRC for spatial use and finally a good reason besides games to have a fast graphics board
One of the plugins that have to be bought in addition to WYSIWYG textprocessors mostly used in educational environments (read: MSWord) are bibliographic tools (Endnote etc.)
Although there are already quite some mature OS bibliography tools and formats available (BibTex, RefDB, DocBook). Unfortunatly most of them are somewhat awkard to use and keep many non-professionals (students, undergrads etc.) and profressionals from using them (This is especialy trough for the non-technical sciences, belive me, and many of them have a far greater need for these tools than tech.sci).
There has been a bibliography project for OpenOffice for some time now whith many well written requirements. Unfortunatly though they are lacking at least one or two people with good programming skills to help them out (and get them started). Unfortunatly SUN does not seem to plan throw in some manpower.
I think that providing an easy to use, GUI-driven and _free_ alternative to the commercial packages used nowadays could be one of killer aspects to convince people to shift.
There are some interesting threads in discussing Shirkey to be found over at W3C: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf- intere st/2003Nov/0047.html or search for Shirkey in the archive http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/sear ch
and the "blackend" code of imh0.jpg shows (if set to a generic font:
actualy it's just put into a greek font. It reads:
As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree Compatibility will be maintained by the folloging assembler code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"
actualy it's just put into a greek font.
It reads:
"As part of the kernel evolution
towards modular naming, the
functions malloc and mfree are being
renamed to rmalloc and rmfree
Compatibility will be maintained by
the folloging assembler code:
(also see mfree/rmfree below)"
snippet above with tag font-face=symbol:
"As part of the kernel evolution
towards modular naming, the
functions malloc and mfree are being
renamed to rmalloc and rmfree
Compatibility will be maintained by
the folloging assembler code:
(also see mfree/rmfree below)"... ah well/. is not allowing me th font tag... have to cut & paste yourself
... is Robert Jungk's "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" which is a little dated but a real page turner. As it gives a lot of room to the scientists' perspectives (both technical and ethical )it might be one especially for the slashdot reader
It's a pity E. Abott, author of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" has died some 80 years ago. Maybe he even would have sold the film-rights of his n-dimensional love story "soon showing in java-applet near you".
Yes, I looked through the available doc, but I could not find information on synchronization of the video, did anybody find out? (AFAIK, there are quite a few ambitious projects related to PC-cluster-based CAVEs. The biggest issue is (was?) not the distribution of tracker-input, scenegraph-syncs or other problems but the genlock: In "standard"-multipipe-IRIX-setups the projectors involved changed images in sync (as needed by the shutter-glasses), but to do so with 6 individual graphic boards in 6 individual boxes is (was?) quite a hard task.
Arghl,
(that's the sound a character beeing strangled makes in German comic books)
Am I the only one left still using a 15''-monitor on his home-"good-morning-world-let's-check-mails'n'news" -box who is looking for that level 6 threshold as all the precious space is consumed by more and more stuff at the top? Even in lynx the OSDN-search bar consumes 3 lines!
BTW: While you're at it, could add a "show banner at top"-option for the user-profile?
Re:autostereoscopic displays
on
3D w/o Goggles
·
· Score: 1
"[...](well, it would make quake cooler, and I'm sure desktop apps could benefit, but I suspect the medical industry has more important uses)."
also, the guys from 4D-Vision have acomplished a Doom- (or was it Quake?)- Port and a auto-stereoscopic version of GlView, the underlying engine of the blaxxun-Contact-VRML97-browser. I've seen both of it in action on the Web3D-Conference earlier this year and it looked pretty impressive
Ok, now that that these machines can realy reassemble themselves, let's giv'em the possibility to collect and produce their own resources. Construct an initial seed of nanobots, put them into a small rocket, send them to any planet that seems to be inhabitable for humans. There the bots would reproduce themselves with the materials they find on that paticular planet. Based on their inital "gene-code" they would be programmed to make architectural facilities for humans. Due to their evolutional design they could adapt to regional specialities (such as gravitational and climatic issues), i.e. make very thick walls where radiation is high etc. Just like techno-termites using their own body as building material for the anthill. You could fire some thousand seeds into space know, wait a few hundred years until the technoparasites made up a small colony for you somewhere and all you need to do is move in. (Do not forget to bring your coffemug, linuxbox, plant etc.)
a very humble simulation of this can be seen here (german)
Translation by google here
Conceptual Flash-movie here (click first link)
why not take this chip, give it to slashdot and make users and moderaters prevent ME from watching to much crap? I'd definetly like to see a small box poping up in the upper right corner of my tv-screen saying "score 5: Funny", read "5 of 586 comments" and the like.
Slashdot Mirror
but it will not filter postings that are the first ones automatically, will it?
walking around in a 3d version of the net? /. in 3D. So I really used to be a fan of all that Metaverse initiatives, 3D desktops etc. (and there are loooots of them nowadays)
This keeps on poping up ervery once in a while and we been doing experiments with realtime-interactive webpages mapped onto arbitratry 3d object in a themeable/scriptable environment (adding mulit-user stuff using irc-channels) back in the days when we had to transfer the stuff into the OpenGL pixel buffer by hand (nowadays you even have functions like this build into Higher Level scenegraph APIs (and - heaven forbid - Direct3D). (description and videos and some screenshots including browsing
IMHO the biggest unresolved problem however remains in this: Does the added value of spatial structures of information outweight the added complexity?
OpenSource, scriptable, customizable ad infinitum integradete IRC for spatial use and finally a good reason besides games to have a fast graphics board
Videos and images available
One of the plugins that have to be bought in addition to WYSIWYG textprocessors mostly used in educational environments (read: MSWord) are bibliographic tools (Endnote etc.) Although there are already quite some mature OS bibliography tools and formats available (BibTex, RefDB, DocBook). Unfortunatly most of them are somewhat awkard to use and keep many non-professionals (students, undergrads etc.) and profressionals from using them (This is especialy trough for the non-technical sciences, belive me, and many of them have a far greater need for these tools than tech.sci). There has been a bibliography project for OpenOffice for some time now whith many well written requirements. Unfortunatly though they are lacking at least one or two people with good programming skills to help them out (and get them started). Unfortunatly SUN does not seem to plan throw in some manpower. I think that providing an easy to use, GUI-driven and _free_ alternative to the commercial packages used nowadays could be one of killer aspects to convince people to shift.
There are some interesting threads in discussing Shirkey to be found over at W3C:- intere st/2003Nov/0047.htmlr ch
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf
or search for Shirkey in the archive
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/sea
Seen in a Hong Kong market restaurant (also above the urinals)
"The use of flushing water for other purposes than flushing is strictly prohibited"
actualy it's just put into a greek font.
It reads:
As part of the kernel evolution
towards modular naming, the
functions malloc and mfree are being
renamed to rmalloc and rmfree
Compatibility will be maintained by
the folloging assembler code:
(also see mfree/rmfree below)"
(I left out the *s)
actualy it's just put into a greek font. It reads: "As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree Compatibility will be maintained by the folloging assembler code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)" snippet above with tag font-face=symbol: ... ah well /. is not allowing me th font tag... have to cut & paste yourself
"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree Compatibility will be maintained by the folloging assembler code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"
I didn't know there was anz other client than ex: and mail
Take a look at planethamlet
an AVI of the running app is here
maybe like this
... is Robert Jungk's "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" which is a little dated but a real page turner. As it gives a lot of room to the scientists' perspectives (both technical and ethical )it might be one especially for the slashdot reader
BTW: things like the famous Stereoscopic Animated Hypercube have been around for quite some while. There even is a game around to be played.
done with aalib-genarated ascii-art movies played by a java-applet: http://www.spatialknowledge.com/projects/opoffice/ mirror/index.html
Anybody?
Nice project anyways, cheers
Jakob
yeah... right... and than we use nanobots to build cities on Mars ;-)
Arghl,
" -box who is looking for that level 6 threshold as all the precious space is consumed by more and more stuff at the top? Even in lynx the OSDN-search bar consumes 3 lines!
(that's the sound a character beeing strangled makes in German comic books)
Am I the only one left still using a 15''-monitor on his home-"good-morning-world-let's-check-mails'n'news
BTW: While you're at it, could add a "show banner at top"-option for the user-profile?
also, the guys from 4D-Vision have acomplished a Doom- (or was it Quake?)- Port and a auto-stereoscopic version of GlView, the underlying engine of the blaxxun-Contact-VRML97-browser. I've seen both of it in action on the Web3D-Conference earlier this year and it looked pretty impressive
This is what I waited for!
Ok, now that that these machines can realy reassemble themselves, let's giv'em the possibility to collect and produce their own resources. Construct an initial seed of nanobots, put them into a small rocket, send them to any planet that seems to be inhabitable for humans. There the bots would reproduce themselves with the materials they find on that paticular planet. Based on their inital "gene-code" they would be programmed to make architectural facilities for humans. Due to their evolutional design they could adapt to regional specialities (such as gravitational and climatic issues), i.e. make very thick walls where radiation is high etc. Just like techno-termites using their own body as building material for the anthill. You could fire some thousand seeds into space know, wait a few hundred years until the technoparasites made up a small colony for you somewhere and all you need to do is move in. (Do not forget to bring your coffemug, linuxbox, plant etc.)
a very humble simulation of this can be seen here (german)
Translation by google here
Conceptual Flash-movie here (click first link)
why not take this chip, give it to slashdot and make users and moderaters prevent ME from watching to much crap? I'd definetly like to see a small box poping up in the upper right corner of my tv-screen saying "score 5: Funny", read "5 of 586 comments" and the like.