Re: Modest idea

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ariman ee>]

Hello,

Most simple animations (as long, as we do not plan to show real movies) 
can well be done vith SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). It is
specially designed, to have support for interactivity, animations &
scripting, can do vector/bitmap graphics & so on. It is XML based, so it
is very possible to embed foreign datatypes (sounds, VRML etc...)

The state of SVG editors/players/browsers/viewers in GNOME is not hopeless
at all. Currently we have:
Sketch, which is capable of saving svg format (no animations, of course)
Sodipodi (my project) & Gill (Raph Levien's one), which are emerging to be
both viewers and editors. Gill have already implemented bonobo component
side.

The one possibility for is to start specialized 2 branches from either
project - editor and player branch. Player needs skripting plugs, possible
fullscreen mode, scoring, audio etc. Lots of editing can be done with
trivial vector illustrating program, preferably with animation support.
Until something better emerges, interactivity - i.e. scripting, can well
be done with Good Text Editor (TM)

Anyway, the programming part, using existing components is easier thing.
The biggest task seems to me graphic/character/story design. But if
somebody wishes to contibute such things, I hope, I can help in
programming side.

Proabaly it will be good idea to start something like GNOME graphic
archive? - or is similar thing already present.

just my ideas,
Lauris

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 bob@thestuff.net wrote:

> I do alot of webmastering and I can tell you, html is not suited to this
> kinda job. It was designed for static pages and has since had some
> extentions, but not enough to do what you want. While you can kinda extend
> it via java, until everyone has a good jit vm, java is going to be far too
> slow and memory intensive to use. Plus, the lack of easily resizeable
> images and absolute positionin(in a standard way) will make it hard to do.
> Maybe somethinkg like hypercard would be in order.
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Eduardo Silva wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com> wrote:
> > >    This is one idea, as long as you can do:
> > > 
> > > 1) Sound
> > Dynamic html does that. And java.
> > 
> > > 2) Full-screen mode, with no window manager
> > > decorations
> > Microsoft did it with ie, so maybe there is a way for
> > gnu/linux browsers?
> > 
> > > 3) vector- and/or object- based graphics (so the
> > > little dog graphic can
> > > bounce around the screen, etc.)
> > 
> > Dynamic html dan move images, text, etc. around. I'm
> > not sure, but I think it can also resize images, text,
> > etc.
> > 
> > > 4) Full-motion video (Real Video plugin should work
> > > fine for this)
> > > 
> > >    After that, it's just finding children's book
> > Or we could write our own
> > > artists
> > I could make some graphics, acording to my time
> > > and sound
> > > engineers.
> > ...and coders.
> > >  Perhaps someone should contact Loki
> > > about getting the rights
> > > to some of the existing win32 software...?
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better(and harder, I know) to create an
> > easy to use free software Multimedia Creator
> > aplication?
> > 
> > Eduardo
> >