e basic idea.
It's just another means to the end, however. I'm hoping to use it as a
platform for some interactive storytelling approaches I've been gestating.
Michael St. Hippolyte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I'm really happy this list is still alive, stirred from its slumber
I hope everybody is just on vacation, it would be sad to see this "point of
light" so to speak fade to black...
-mash
At 11:53 AM 7/29/01 +1000, Miriam English wrote:
>Is the list still alive?
>Just a test. :-)
>
>
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>Q. What is t
Dennis McKenzie wrote:
>I'm married to the concept not the file format.
That's the way I feel too. Even though my bread is buttered with VRML, I
believe the real magic comes not from the technology but the way it's used.
My goal is not to create cool worlds but to create good interactive
stori
Jed Hartman wrote:
>I've looked at some of the Flash cartoons out there, and so far I
>haven't been impressed -- the art mostly *looks* fine (though still
>nothing to write home about), but the stories are mostly just bad.
>Is that a natural consequence of Sturgeon's Law and/or growing pains
chael
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Michael St. Hippolyte[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trapezium Development LLC http://www.trapezium.com
of a good one, I suggest we make one up ourselves. After
all, at the rate DTD's are popping up, pretty soon they'll be like home
pages -- everyone will have one.
> The visualization is of course done with VRML :)
Generated or hand-crafted? (Just curious, I love them both...)
Mi
the membership. I
>would like to continue archiving the list -- there really is a lot of
>mutual interest between the two lists. May I?
By all means, yes! (speaking only for myself)
...........
Michael St. Hippolyte
One application category conspicuously absent in the X3D comments and
documents I've seen is storytelling.
I don't think this is cause for alarm. I do think it is a good reason to
think about viewing X3D not as a storytelling medium but as one component
of a storytelling medium.
Here's another
aylor's space station and doing Hamlet for
instance. More ambitiously, one could create a whole constellation of
elaborate simulations, each one providing rich local color to serve as the
context for the unfolding story. "My linear, nonderministic local
simulation or yours...?"
Michael
Alan Taylor wrote:
>What about a different sort of Interactive Fiction. The simultaneous
thread-set,
>or skein of storylines. No branching or decision points, each thread is
>distinct, and exists from beginning to end, and interrelates with every other
>thread. "Titanic" might be an interesting ex
Chris Crawford wrote:
> My problem is that spatial factors have been
>so much overdone in just about everything.
I don't think the problem is with spatialization per se. The problem is
that the vocabulary is still miniscule. The current approach to
spatialization in interactive fiction is simil
I think what Len said about viewpoints is equally valid about characters --
they are story driven. They have a specific obligation to the story: add
some color, illuminate another character through dialog, or advance the
plot in some way. Many of the characters in a linear story have simple
role
Len wrote:
>Viewpoints are story devices.
>
>The application of story devices depend on the driver of a scene
>(that is, why is the scene being presented and how does it advance the
>plot).
I would agree and add that you could boil down interactive fiction as
differing from the traditional vari
Dennis wrote:
>One of the things not covered in almost all of these nonlinear/interactive
>story essays is dealing with a realtime 3D interface.
By way of disclaimer, I wrote the particular paper you're referring to in
1995, when my own computer graphics experience was decidedly 2D. But that
di
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