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Quoting Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@g...>: > 3D makes sophisticated 2D possible. Apple proves this daily - and most of > the core changes occuring on the Linux and even MS side visually are due to > the integration of 3D processes into the daily workflow. Sure, many of them > are just "effects", but its remarkable how effective those effects can be > for making metaphors believable. Absolutely true. > > With 3D there are effectively two metaphoric systems at play. The first is > the Sims reality - Second Life, et alia. This is the walkthrough model of > the universe, you are in the perspective of the world, and it is what people > commonly conjure to mind when they bring up "3D". The benefits of those are lost on me... > > The second metaphor is more subtle - it is the mathematical domain that 3D > opens up; fractally effects, vapors, applications that are able to twist and > distort and reform because they are rendered onto a mathematically complex > domain. The 2D desktop's not going away, but the ability to organize > in 2.5space ( I like that term 2.5D... > i.e., z-ordered content, not something with a fractal dimension of 2.5) is > significant, even with a static viewpoint. Data visualization comes from > this, and data visualization is frankly the great unexplored world where XML > should, by all rights, excel. Why? Because data visualization typically > requires the ability to transform content on the fly, sometimes radically > so, with the presentation layer being built in ways that can't necessarily > be predicted a priori. XML is superb at that, whereas related technologies > such as Flash are only good so long as you stay within the fairly limited > confines of what a packaged toolset can provide. but I never got my browser to render an xml doc as 3d..? How did you do that? David
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