From: Jeremy Lee Subject: Re: TECH: world description Date: Sat, 18 Jul 92 20:29:40 EST Organization: School of Info. & Computing Science, Bond University, Australia. In article you write: >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. Why? If I have a much faster machine sitting next to my little graphics station, and an adequately high bandwidth connection between the two, then I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to allocate the processing power any way I want. The only reason why you say this is because you think that communications bandwidth is insifficient for the job. That is an artificial limitation. >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. Machines don't matter. Machines don't throw anything at other machines. Objects do. Machines are just convinient hosts for objects, (or bits of objects) which are free to copy or move to any other machine. There will only be limited cases where part of an object will be tied to a particular machine. >-- > 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] *********************************************************************** * . Jeremy Lee s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au Student of Everything * * /| "Where the naked spotless intelect is without * * /_| center or circumference. Look to the light, * * / |rchimedes Leland, look to the light" - Dale Cooper * ***********************************************************************