Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Amstutz
Your view is a filtered subset of the topic :-) I mean views in an abstract sense of a filtered or transformed version of some underlying data set. So in our examples, an area of interest view is a subset of all the avatars in the entire world, an revision control view is the state of the

Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:06:20PM -0700, S Mattison wrote: Don't forget Aspect Ratio/Field of View, and Near/Far clipping planes. Can't have a camera without all the bells and whistles. ;) But I think I see what you mean. Groups of objects, or some such, are considered 'views'? So a 'camera

Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:51:42AM +0100, Karsten Otto wrote: Hi all, it seems like I finally begin to understand what this view issue is all about... One more point for clarification please: Are view parameters mandatory or optional? I think that depends on the sitution. For a social

Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-05 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 05.12.2006 um 13:41 schrieb Reed Hedges: Revision control is a good application where instanced views might need to be added to the core VOS protocol in some.I would love to be able to use a URL to refer to a specific revision of a Vobject, and for a specific revision of a

Re: [vos-d] parameterized views

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Otto
Hi folks! From the top of my head, I'd say this idea of yours sounds cool, but is probably going too far. After all, the idea is to present a synchronized world for everybody to *share*, i.e. Gibson's consensual hallucination. If every user gets to see the world in an entirely different