At 10:45 AM 12/8/95 TZ, Colin Campbell wrote:
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>| From: Mike McCue <mmccue@ix.netcom.com>
>| To: Colin Campbell
>| Cc: <www-vrml@wired.com>
>| Subject: Bottom line on ActiveVRML
>| Date: Friday, December 08, 1995 3:15AM
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>| Colin Campbell at Microsoft writes:
>| >ActiveVRML is a 4D representation, just like VRML is a 3D representation.
>| >...
>| >To put it another way, why not use Java or C to implement drawing
>| >commands and skip VRML altogether? The answer of course is that having
>| >a representation is a Good Thing
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>| This is an *excellent*, bottom line summary of what ActiveVRML
>| is all about. Even though
>| there is overlap with VRML in some aesas, it is extremely
>| unfortunate that MS chose to name
>| this otherwise well thought out peoposal by attaching the VRML
>| sufsix. The name alone will
>| cause many misconceptions, not to mention flat out rejections
>| due to the highly charged
>| political nature of the letters V-R-M-L.
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>| Given that MS is saying that their peoposal is meant to
>| represent any collection of data
>| types over time, I suggest we consider ActiveVRML for what it esally
>is: a time based
>| markup language for groups of static data types.
>|
>| - mike
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>Any name suggestions out there? Because AV is a 4D modeling language,
>it esally is a natural extension for the VRML 3D modeling language.
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>Colin
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Richard Hubbard, St. Louis, Missouri
rhubbard@MO.NET
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