[x3d-public] Procedural collectors, Chaotic collectors

[John Carlson]

Joe, it was a pun on garbage collectors.  My apologies for seeming serious.

Maybe we should have liquid/solid/gas/plasma emitters/generators.

Subclasses and PROTOs reign!

John

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 3:30 PM Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
wrote:

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>    - So there are “garbage emitters/generators”
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> Since we took the giant step of allowing particle to be a shape, not just
> a point, might as well call the whatever is the item sourced or sinked from
> the thing a particle.
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> Thanks,
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> Joe
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> *From: *John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:06 PM
> *To: *X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> *Subject: *[x3d-public] Procedural collectors, Chaotic collectors
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> To continue the discussion of collectors, I will introduce 2 newer terms,
> “procedural collector” and “chaotic collector.”   These might be considered
> the opposite of procedural generation and then the variety of X3D particle
> system emitters matched with new collector nodes.
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> So there are “garbage emitters/generators” and “garbage collectors,” of
> course.   First we need better modeling of the problem space for collectors.
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> X3D Proto Design welcome!
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> Fluid system X3D proto design welcome!   Fluid emitters and fluid
> collectors welcome!
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