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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Not for us. It isn’t
product OR standard but product and standards because we can do more with both
than just one. The trade off here is business size by limiting access to
the engine files (ie, hook them on an editor and don’t give them an export
out) or use the fact of the standard to come up with companies that don’t
compete by making all of the system but companies that make competing pieces,
character editor vs character editor, audio editor vs audio editor.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>De facto, that is what exist now. It’s
parts polyglot. In one way that enables quick
evolution. In another, it fragments the market. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>XTranormal goes around that.
It is a company providing not all of those parts, but the basic animation
concepts in a library of content parts. They sell scenes,
characters, voices, behaviors. They make them popular figures
so you can put words in their mouths. Oh the joy of modern stardom….
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The XTranormals are fun and quick to make,
and are not more than ten percent harder than the average Facebook entry to
make. They only have to replace the avatar/photo with a
character. A default style set for initialization does the rest.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The trick with the standard is the author
shouldn’t see it. The format and engine are built into the
social network as savvy socially sensitive renderers. How many namespaces
do you want to exchange is the tough question here and how many would you have
to exchange to exchange the full range of information in an XTranormal?
How many namespaces make up a scene?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This really comes down to tool over
text. A script, a one two n actor scene (eg, one film),
voices (the way to get complex here is filtering; that’s ok as long as
the basic set that you give away JUST WORKS. Drag and drop and type.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The reason to use the standard is the bang
by the n of sets you can exchange determines the utility of each component of a
type. Ie, it’s nice if the script runs in all
implementations. So the competition comes down to who writes the
best composition system. They win. So far, XTranormal.
It kicks out mp4s.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Some think about X3D files for real-time
animation. Very good but also good for sampling. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In an animation, that is a set of real
time or scheduled access to sequencers. In a movie, those are
mp4s. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>MP4s are very reusable. It’s
a very different editing space because it is audio, video, image, composites,
effects for audio and video and direct access to an audio editor. All
but the meshes and mesh engines, IOW, an integrated movie mixing suite.
Once rendered down to AV, you can split, splice cut and otherwise harvest a lot
of image sequences. Once you have access to the temporal address,
it’s a dimension above because that enables the slicing into even more
finely reusable sequences to the n of the number of integratible components.
Remember, audio and video are separable parts. Punch. Punch. Punch.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Now… it’s all very neat but the
cannot bottom line happen is this: for any number more than one in ten
should the editing system fail. In XTranormal, some sounds such as
the chime corrupt the file. Since there is no backup past publication,
the entire piece is lost. Oopsie.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can’t do that. Content
lost is irretrievable even if it can be recreated from memory. A Save
without backup is a clusterPlucker waiting to happen.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org
[mailto:x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>John Carlson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 05, 2010
6:03 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> X3D Graphics public mailing
list<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [X3D-Public]
XTranormal X3D</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Isn't "The Sims" good enough for doing 3D
Worlds? Look at what "Spore" does for avatars. The trick
is that these are applications, not standards.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Check this out this 3D authoring tool (Kinect based)
for ideas: <a href="http://vimeo.com/16818988">http://vimeo.com/16818988</a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Len Bullard wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When will someone do for X3D worlds
what XTranormal does for videos?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I worked on HumanML hoping someone
would make that happen but it didn’t. It became too many things to
too many people.</span></font></p>
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Is it really that hard? XTranormal has approximately 1.6 million
projects, series, all from a simple drag and drop text interface.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It is said the power of HTML is view
source, but really, it is text you CAN type. XTranormal simplified
to the basics and it works.</span></font></p>
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