From: piggy@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (La Monte Yarroll)
Subject: Re: DESIGN: Logic Spaces in VR?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 16:05:09 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations


In <1992Apr24.231107.28256@u.washington.edu> cmcl2!acf3.nyu.edu!checker@uunet.UU.NET (Christopher Hecker) writes:

>I think part of the problem with visualizing [logic spaces] is that
>they accumulate dimensions so fast.  When you only have 3 visual (plus
>color and sound) dimensions to work with you are pretty limited.

>Chris

There is a large body of literature discussing exactly that problem.
There are many ways to project higher dimentional spaces into lower
dimentional spaces.

I've seen an application which represented groups of articles from a news
service in a virtual space through which you could move.  It was very
impressive.  I'm sending a note to the developer to encourage him to
join this discussion.

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