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In what way does a "perpective shaped angled window" or a set of "rotating movie screens" represent something that "closely models real life"?!?!?!?
The things being suggested are not ones that "closely model real life;" they are instead things that probably seem pretty cool, but that you could only ever see in a computer graphical interface.
Reality is that a good map is NOT a slavish representation of the territory; it exaggerates points of interest and ignores others.
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Only a small subset of the drawing operations are accelerated. In addition, what current toolkits want to do with the graphics card means that some of the acceleration functions...
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:26:15 -0300, Hern‡n Freschi OK, I admit to being a bit frustrated.... Here's what's good: AutoCAD, Solidworks (especially SolidWorks, though interestingly enough, SolidWorks is somewhat open source, if not GPL...
A good computer interface "majors on" the important details and does not force the user to pay attention to others that are not of interest.
I recently tried out one of the "Sims" games, discovering that it was exactly what I wouldn't consider a great amusement. It was quite "realistic" in forcing the player to put considerable effort into cleaning up after meals, scrubbing the bathroom, and using the bathroom. This is entirely irritating: the computer is entirely capable of coping with these details. It seemed extremely odd that in the one evening I spent playing the game, I spent more time making a computer simulation mop the floor than I do myself in the "real world." -- Is the surface of a planet the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
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