Re: 3d meaning

Torbjoern Caspersen (Torbjoern.Caspersen@ark.unit.no)
Wed, 31 May 1995 18:53:27 +0100

>On Tue, 30 May 1995, Torbjoern Caspersen wrote:
>
>> >You could phrase it another way: blue mailboxes are "real" only to
>> >people in the USA.
>>
>> True. Mailboxes are a bad example of icons.

>
>This is a good discussion. It's one I was involved in a number of weeks
>ago. Unfortunately, it's been judged to be an internationalization (i18n)
>issue, and not germain to the discussion of VRML. I was asked to take it
>elsewhere, and so I'd appreciate it if the present participants in the
>discussion would do the same. Sorry folks. I'm just passing the experience
>on.
>
>---
>Andrew C. Esh mailto:andrew_esh@cnt.com

This is _not_ a discussion on internationalisation, although it might look
so from your excerpt. It about how we read objects as symbols, should be
pretty damn relevant to any Virtual-World discussion.

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Torbjoern Caspersen casper@due.unit.no
http://www.stud.unit.no/~casper/
Student of Architecture
at the Norwegian faculty of technology, NTH, Trondheim.