Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] Another project to compare ourselves to

[Brent Gulanowski]

I wish I could read their whole site and comment on it right away -- 
but it's too involved and too intense! We owe it to ourselves to do a 
comprehensive review of both the current literature and the current 
landscape of existing open projects and do a detailed examination of 
what we want to accomplish in this context. Certainly things will 
change and we won't be able to keep up with everything, but if we 
aren't informed about where things are now, we can be sure that what we 
do won't have a long life-span.

Verse looks very intriguing, and reminds me of a lot of the ideas I've 
been mulling over for the last six months to a year (all of which are 
FAR outside of my current development abilities, but well within 
current technology). This only intensifies my interest in considering a 
long-term scope for this project. We really have to know how far we can 
go, and what we expect/hope will happen after 3DKit -- as it is planned 
now -- reaches maturity.

The possibilities (temporarily ignoring the complexities) of 3D 
environments, Aritificial Intelligence, and distributed computing are 
still beyond what most of us have considered. What I would love to do 
is spec out a realistic component of some kind of extended virtual 
environment network -- just a small piece that we can build, but with 
the expectation of more radical extensions in the three to six year 
timeframe.

Damn, it's scary to see that there really are many developers with 
ideas at least as radical as my extreme sci-fi ideas -- except that 
they are *building* the damn things *today*. And building them 
open-source, too.

B

On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 07:05  PM, Lyndon Tremblay wrote:

> If we wanted to make an ever more complex and powerful network-enabled 
> 3D graphics authoring system, there is Verse at 
> http://verse.sourceforge.net/
>
> While it is mainly a network protocol and not much use for 3DKit 
> itself, it's architecture in general might be of interest. Next 
> generation Blender has some ties with it, I believe.
>
> --Lyndon
>
> On 2002-11-08 15:07:06 -0500 Brent Gulanowski 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Phil et al,
> > I have just been looking at the OGRE 3D Engine web page. I wonder if 
> > you have looked at it yet
> > http://ogre.sourceforge.net
> > Very interesting, esp. that the lead developer is very design-focused 
> > (class overview:http://ogre.sourceforge.net/images/overview.png). 
> > System looks like it's going to be quite nice, and is progressing 
> > well. Uses plug-ins for both renderers and scene managers (analogous 
> > to scene class proposed for G3D?).
> > I think it would be valuable to analyze the design of some other 
> > engines and see where they have succeeded and where they have failed, 
> > in light of their objectives and in relation to our objectives.
> > Ciao,
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