From: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) Subject: Re: TECH: world description Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1992 19:45:07 GMT Message-ID: Organization: University of Waterloo In article <1992Jul16.070157.23780@u.washington.edu> chanson@mtlookitthat.chi.il.us (Chris Hanson) writes: >> One reason for going to networking is so that you can implement these things >> on other machines (instead of having your rendering station also have to >> do neural net simulations, for example). > >I disagree. I don't really think rendering and stuff should be done >on other machines; I say a machine should throw an object description >at yours (or the world in general) and yours should take care of the >rendering. Isn't that what I said? Your rendering station doesn't run the simulation of the object; the object (out there on the network somewhere) just sends information about itself to your station, which caches the info in a local database and renders from that. -- Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca BangPath: uunet!watmath!sunee!broehl Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]