From: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Re: TECH: My standard is better than your standard.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:58:05 GMT
Message-ID: <BruHGt.FCK@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo


In article <1992Jul23.024117.11690@u.washington.edu> bobp@hal.com (Bob
Pendelton) writes:

>There are at least 3 different flavors of time involved. There is real
>time, the time that you and I experience. There is process time. The
>time that it takes to get next frame up. And there is model time. The
>time unit used in the world we are simulating.

I like this; I was wrestling a bit with the issue of time, and that
sums it up pretty clearly.

>I very well might want to require the system to present a new frame 60
>times/second and map 1 nanosecond of model time to 1 second or real
>time.

Exactly.  Just as we have a (physical) "world scale", we should have
a "world time scale".  ("In this world, one unit is one angstrom and
one time unit is one nanosecond").

>Allow the object to decide how to scale itself to the world. How else
>am I going to put a representation of myself into the insides of a
>virtual single celled animal?

Right.

	Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept
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