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Jim Charter wrote:
> On a whim I spent just a little time poking around with Google to
> investigate how difficult it would be to set up a virtual space with a
> viewpoint that can be zoomed, dollyed, and panned. This could be in a
> browser or in a separate viewer. At first blush it seems that panning
> the camera or rotating an object is easy, also zoom, but dollying the
> camera not so? Is this true? Does this function present a particlar
> hurtle that panning and zooming doesn't? Google maps does it. Does the
> difficulty increase linearly or exponentially?
>
> -Jim
Sounds like a job for... VRML!!!
It's amazing the problems that were solved before 1995, and then
forgotten about :)
Actually, in looking at the Wikipedia page, it seems it's been
superseded by another format, X3D, which sounds like a cross between
VRML and XML (why is XML used for *everything* these days?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D
...Chambers
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