RE: Of Interest

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Holger is talking about timelines, use of objects, etc. 

At one level one might be placing named characters, 
speeches, gestures, moveto etc.   All it means is 
High Level Authoring Language and is not that much 
different (IMO) from the sorts of interfaces one 
uses in parametric systems where assemblies are placed, 
properties set, and so on.   Essentially, work in the 
language of the author not the language of 3D graphics.
It is a tradeoff between ease of conceptualizing the 
end product and programming close to the metal, so 
yes, usability of the authoring suite.   

Programmers I've worked with have a tough time with 
XML because where an author sees 

<partnumber>1-111</partnumber>
<partname>Wrench</partname>

the programmer sees

<data value="1-111" type="number" />
<data value="Wrench" type="string" />

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Niclas Olofsson [mailto:gurun@acc.umu.se]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:18 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: Of Interest



Other than perhaps SMIL, do you have pointers to examples? HLAL sounds
sort of cool, but in the end it's a placeholder for "usability", isn't
it. Or is HLAL to be considered "usability specific to the applications
domain" (if you understand what I mean)?

/Niclas

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
> 
> Two emails of interest.  The first is from Holger Grahn at
> Blaxxun repeating suggestions being made on the VRML list
> for the last six months that HLAL's can enable better authoring
> for complex 3D.   The second is the announcement of another
> OASIS technical group where the charter will overlap our
> own although they are explicitly focused on Topic Maps.
> 
> The ability to integrate the upstream descriptions of
> domains and create visualizations based on these is a
> key technology for communication.
> 
> Len Bullard
> Intergraph Public Safety
> clbullar@ingr.com
> http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
> 
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Grahn [mailto:holger@blaxxun.com]
> Subject: [x3d-contributors] Re: [web3d-mpeg] RE: [bod] X3D/XMT options
> 
> An challenge for X3D could be to define an additional much higher level
> authoring format.
> I am thinking of a format where you have timelines, much higher level time
> constructs,
> easier assembly of objects & behaviours, easier integration of media with
> svg, html etc.