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Posted by Noodles Jefferson on 08/27/05 04:51
In article <hnhsg1lu9somcdhnmhmqu2k94ic0gt1ib2@4ax.com>, Onideus Mad
Hatter (usenet@backwater-productions.net) dropped a +5 bundle of
words...
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:16:02 -0700, "^reaper^" <knocking@deaths.door>
> wrote:
>
> >While sipping absinthe, Mimic heard a loud sucking noise coming from
> >alt.2600, and hastily inscribed the following unintelligible Sanskrit in
> ><news:HZGdnV92RcmCIZHeRVnyjw@pipex.net>:
> >
> >> hrmm so aside from all the plotting. Can you use GIS to produce 3D
> >> enviroments based on real world geodata?
> >
> >Oh, definitely. For a taste, go here: http://vrmlworks.crispen.org and
> >click on teh worlds link, then scroll down a bit to the "real places"
> >heading. Some of the vr is decent. And most of it beats teh chit,
> >bandwidth-wise, compute-wise, and anim-wise out of flash 3d emuls.
>
> Hey does anyone remember um...oh what was it called...like
> ActiveWorlds I think? LOL, yeah I was into VRML chit too for awhile
> back in like 1997...but it was kind of a novelty rather than something
> really practical...and for the most part it still is. Even stuff like
> "Google Earth" is pretty deficient. Most of their sat images are over
> a year out of date and with a lot of cities the best quality you can
> get is like 3 miles off the fuckin ground. And don't even get me
> started on how "off" everything is. It's like, huh, when did that
> Taco bell suddenly move three blocks down?
Well if you want real time, you'll pretty much have to work for the
NSA.
--
Noodles Jefferson
mhm31x9 Smeeter#29 WSD#30
sTaRShInE_mOOnBeAm aT HoTmAil dOt CoM
"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days, bribery and corruption
are common, children no longer obey their parents and the end of the
world is evidently approaching."
--Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C.
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