I have seen an app (name?) that shows lots of internal Unix info
on an Xwindows screen, rendered as coloured 3D columns.
To my _amazement_, I found the display immediately more useful and
directly telling than any screen display "Hey wow, look at how that
program has grown!", not to mention more appealing.
Perhaps the dream that 3D would boost (I mean enhance!) our interactions
with more mundane aspects of computing is not so wrong after all.
> is constantly expanding (for all those people who can't figure out how to
> transform their information into 3D).
>
I'd go along with that. Surely we will _never_ dispose of 2D representations.
There is (a) just too much that you can do in 2D, and (b) some things that
are harder to understand or even do in 3D.
> Have a great day,
> Lance McBride
> mcbrla@shasta.wwc.edu
Jon Holdsworth
jon@alexia.access.net.au