Re: coordinate systems

James Waldrop (james@ubique.com)
Fri, 26 May 1995 10:11:01 PDT

Sevo Stille wrote:
>100% agreement. Unfortunately it looks like we rather need a unique naming
>convention for unnamed objects if obligatory naming does not make it into the
>next VRML version - once there is a large majority of unnamed .wrl's out
>there, we will have to handle them somehow.

If something isn't named, it has no identity, and therefore it probably
shouldn't be manipulated. There is of course the problem of walking
through walls and whatnot.

I think that by letting objects be manipulated we'll have a ready-made
reason for naming them. DEF will probably become a lot more popular. :)

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