Re: The State Of The Art

["A Palsson" <ampalsson ozemail com au>]

Why not get the darned thing (Gnome) reasonably bug free, at least so that
it runs without crashing for more than 15 minutes at a time, before we start
planning all these spinning spheres and "spinning heads"    :))


----- Original Message -----
From: Dr Geek <dr_geek@hotmail.com>
To: <clavoie@enter-net.com>; <hitchhiker@cybermail.net>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>; <M.Rogers@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: The State Of The Art


> >(Stand in the middle of a sphere, and have a plane perpendicular
> >(which represents the screen) to your field of view go away from you
> >on a radius of the sphere, the last point would be right in front of
> >your viewpoint, where the center of the window is, so all else would
> >be before that point, from your perspective.)
> Hum - I hadn't thought of using real 3d, partly because of the CPU needs,
> partly because 3d interfaces are a whole other ballgame.  I was just using
> the sphere conceptually; the part of the sphere that you could see would
> always be flat and up "against the glass" of your monitor (like a
spherical
> balloon pushed up against a flat surface).
> Otherwise all your windows need to be distorted, and therefore become
> unreadable.
> dr g
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