Wonderful waste of time

[Martin Baehr]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:45:09PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> And how is this better than a well-designed file format? I'm sure that if
> you're interested in molecular structure, you probably have a few high-end
> visualization tools sitting on your local machine. Downloading the tool,
> possibly untrusted, AND the data is not only more time- and bandwidth-
> consuming, but it's a security problem, and a UI problem.
> 
> Where's the benefit?

it can get people like me interrested in looking at the stuff.
the point of sientific websites is usually to bring your research
to a broader public.

that public however does not have those tools installed.

vrml is a good idea.
unfortunately good ideas don't fly, only hyped ones.
however vrml was hyped at a time when the average computer 
was yet way to slow to handle a general-purpose 3d engine.

if vrml was hyped today, i am sure a lot of good stuff would 
come out of it...

greetings, martin.
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