Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 08/26/05 02:42

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a year out of date and with a lot of cities the best quality you can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?

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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
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