Re: Property "rotate" from Laurens Holst on 2005-05-16 (www-style@w3.org from May 2005)

From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:39:47 +0200
To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4288CCD3.8070103@students.cs.uu.nl>

I don’t think 3D web pages are anything new. Think of VRML, which I 
remember already trying out somewhere in the 1990s, when we still had a 
Pentium Pro 233 computer. If they were the future of the web, and 
created as much added value as you imagine, I think it would have 
existed by now.

Nevertheless, I do see value in an SVG-like usage of 3D on the web, for 
(interactive) illustrations. Imagine a web page on chemistry, showing 
the structure of a molecule in a 3D representation, and rotating the 
independant atoms to visualize how they rotate in reality. I imagine 
that would get the point through pretty quickly.

But I guess this is off-topic.


~Grauw

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Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!!

Received on Monday, 16 May 2005 17:40:50 UTC