Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!wex@dali.pws.bull.com From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: "Space" Message-ID: Date: 10 Aug 90 17:29:45 GMT References: <9007250107.AA01311@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Lines: 71 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu In article <26710@unix.cis.pitt.edu> sean@unix.cis.pitt.edu writes: Also, has anyone given thought to treating 'scale' as a dimension of sorts? Yes. This is one of the most important unresolved areas of semantic-space theory. The problem is this: I'd like to have the space be reflexive; that is, I should be able to construct a semantic space to describe the cyberspace-object itself. This would mean that we'd have dimensions which described properties of dimensions, such as size, type, and so on. (If thinking about this too hard gives you a headache, welcome to the club.) One of my compadres in this endeavor called this space a "flight rules" space, meaning that the space would show you the rules used for navigation (or flight) in cyberspace. Anyway, the general problem of how to create the flight-rules space is *very* hard and I have no good ideas, other than build one and try it, then revise based on experience. Anyone with any better ideas - *please* share them with me. -- --Alan Wexelblat phone: (508)294-7485 Bull Worldwide Information Systems internet: wex@pws.bull.com "Politics is Comedy plus Pretense." Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) Subject: Re: "Space" Message-Id: Date: 10 Aug 90 17:29:45 GMT References: <9007250107.AA01311@hitl.vrnet.washington.edu> Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu for virtual-worlds@milton.u.washington.edu (from news@pws.bull.com (Remote NNTP postings)) id ; Fri, 10 Aug 90 13:25:53 EDT <26710@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: dali.pws.bull.com In-Reply-To: sean@unix.cis.pitt.edu's message of 7 Aug 90 21:51:26 GMT In article <26710@unix.cis.pitt.edu> sean@unix.cis.pitt.edu writes: Also, has anyone given thought to treating 'scale' as a dimension of sorts? Yes. This is one of the most important unresolved areas of semantic-space theory. The problem is this: I'd like to have the space be reflexive; that is, I should be able to construct a semantic space to describe the cyberspace-object itself. This would mean that we'd have dimensions which described properties of dimensions, such as size, type, and so on. (If thinking about this too hard gives you a headache, welcome to the club.) One of my compadres in this endeavor called this space a "flight rules" space, meaning that the space would show you the rules used for navigation (or flight) in cyberspace. Anyway, the general problem of how to create the flight-rules space is *very* hard and I have no good ideas, other than build one and try it, then revise based on experience. Anyone with any better ideas - *please* share them with me. -- --Alan Wexelblat phone: (508)294-7485 Bull Worldwide Information Systems internet: wex@pws.bull.com "Politics is Comedy plus Pretense."