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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>For some reason, this reminds me of the children’s show where they take the bus into space.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Lol</p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:christoph.valentin@gmx.at">Christoph Valentin</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:18 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:gpugroup@gmail.com">GPU Group</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [x3d-public] should I or should I not</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Doug,<br><br>You are welcome. I am happy about the new node GeoPlanet, because that tells me X3D is going to face the final frontier, which is space. <br><br>:-)<br><br>Unfortunately my employer decided NOT to use my idea about drones and GSM-R in the end (I reported). <br><br>However I still have my Hobby SrrTrains about multiuser scenes, which is also aiming at space in its "Child Project " SP-ARK :-)<br><br>Kind greetings. <br><br>Christoph<br>-- <br>Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit GMX Mail gesendet.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Am 15.01.19, 03:37, GPU Group <gpugroup@gmail.com> schrieb:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Christoph,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>PS thanks again for lending me the terrain model, which I used to test geo nodes and in particular speeding up WALKing on the terrain. I went on to do an EarthRise scene -with both moon and earth in geonode format in the same scene, which led to the need for a new node GeoPlanet. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Doug<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 3:11 PM Christoph Valentin <<a href="mailto:christoph.valentin@gmx.at">christoph.valentin@gmx.at</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the last few hours and days I saw so many positive, motivating e-mails here, so I am thinking now:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Should I or should I not?".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I mean: "Should I write an e-mail, too?".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On the one hand</span></u></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I have nothing to offer. The SrrTrains v0.01 project is still missing some important architectural gimmicks, before I could suggest to take the X3D prototypes and define some new X3D nodes from them.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>First I would need a bunch of users/supporters, before I could do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Additionally, I am mainly interested in the networking and simulation issues, but not in the sophisticated graphics.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The demo models I am creating are not really "pretty" or "impressive". They are just "functional" example applications of my experimental what-I-call "framework".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On the other hand</span></u></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Still I have a some downloads of the SRR Framework (<a href="http://simulrr.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">simulrr.sourceforge.net</a>) every month - unfortunately without any feed back - are some of the downloaders available here at this mailing list? I don't know. Maybe you can give me a hint and some feed back.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Although I cannot provide a finished framework yet, the concepts seem to be stable now - would be interesting to discuss them here - anybody interested? - we could try to improve the framework and make it more meaningful.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>First question: why do I stick to BS? A: it's just my laziness, I cannot afford the rebase to another X3D Player / MU System if I'm alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Second question: why don't I support HLA/DIS, but I stick to the Network Sensor? Why standardized protocol at all? A: it's again my laziness. I cannot afford to start the project from the scratch again, if I'm alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Third question: why should you join the project? A: I cannot answer this.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>All the best<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Yours Christoph<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A distant friend of the community<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.6pt'>_______________________________________________<br>x3d-public mailing list<br><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><a href="http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org" target="_blank">http://web3d.org/mailman/listinfo/x3d-public_web3d.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>