I have
a have a VRML world that I have been building for our VNet site and was
wondering if it might be of use. It is composed 3 art galleries on a
gigantic mandelbrot landscape. The galleries (in this world) are strictly
for fractal art. There's a huge 5 story gallery that can hold hundreds of
pictures, a featured artist gallery, and a mandelbrot gallery. The
pictures are designed with LODs and inlines so that they don't hog bandwidth or
CPU juice.
The
interesting thing about how we are designing the site is that each contributing
artist gets access to their own protected area for picture uploads. This
allows them to swap out pictures in their display space whenever they
want. We will be working in voting capabilities so that the people who
visit the world can decide what they like the most. The "favorite
artist" then get's to display their work in the "Featured Artist
building". E-commerce is being built in as well so that people
can order hi-res 20x30 photographic prints by clicking on the images and placing
an order.
We
plan on putting in a lot of polyhedra sculpures (very cool) too, but I need to
get final approval from the content developer first. He already said that
he liked the idea but we just need to formalize it. We might even have
fractally created music streamed in as well.
Also: We also have gotten some very important contracts taken care of so that I
can finally run my big mouth about why I've been taking so long to get actively
involved in VNet development ;-) The VNet calling has been grinding
away on me for nearly 9 months now and it's driving me nuts being repeatedly
"pulled" from it.
VRML
IS NOW BEING COMMERCIALLY USED IN APPLICATIONS THAT ARE CONTROLLED BY YOUR
BRAINWAVES. We've actually created FDA-compliant commercial VRML products
that you control with your brainwaves to "re-wire"/operantly condition
you're central nervous system (must be under the supervision of a licensed
psychologist, psychiatrist, or neurologist). This is to permanently help
people with brain injuries, with psychological and learning disorders, with
physiological imbalances, desiring peak mental performance training, and engrain
meditation techniques. These apps are going to be available on the major
clinical biofeedback systems and go to market in a week.
Is
this something that might fit as well? Sounds Sci-Fi but has a very
positive use.
Jon
Meadows
