Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-29 Thread Reed Hedges
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Karsten Otto wrote: This sounds like a radical redesign... so far we had a single local vobject acting as a sequencer for multiple remote vobjects. Obviously, you have something new in mind. Please tell us more :-) My feeling is that this would be

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-29 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:22:41AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Karsten Otto wrote: This sounds like a radical redesign... so far we had a single local vobject acting as a sequencer for multiple remote vobjects. Obviously, you have something new in

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-29 Thread Peter Amstutz
(I wrote this in a private email to Reed, but I think it is of general interest). What I have in mind could almost be a sort of desktop for VOS, providing a general framework for providing visualization and interaction for vobjects. Thinking about it in that way, it might be desirable to split

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-28 Thread Karsten Otto
I forgot to mention in my last email my own feeble attempts at building a generic 3D browser. I needed something like this for my SeVEn framework, so I did a proof- of-concept implementation based on Java3D. While this is tied in with the framework, the architecture is generic and maybe

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-27 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 27.06.2007 um 05:55 schrieb Peter Amstutz: I've been quiet, but that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about VOS development. I'll try to describe some of the things I've been working on recently. Most importantly, starting July 9th, I will be devoting half of my time (2-3

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-27 Thread Marcos Marado
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 11:29, Karsten Otto wrote: - User interface for the 3D client. This is a critical issue on which we have spent too little time in the past. Let me talk a little bit about the last part. This time around, I'm going to try and have a prototype 3D client in

Re: [vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-27 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:29:43PM +0200, Karsten Otto wrote: - Scalability, clustering and recovery from failure. The general ideas is to use replication for load balancing and distributed locks for consistancy control. This sounds like a radical redesign... so far we had a single

[vos-d] thoughts and plans

2007-06-26 Thread Peter Amstutz
I've been quiet, but that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about VOS development. I'll try to describe some of the things I've been working on recently. Most importantly, starting July 9th, I will be devoting half of my time (2-3 full days each week) to VOS development. Coding, which has