Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!adm!cmcl2!lanl!beta.lanl.gov!scp From: scp@acl.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Pope) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: Re: Requirements? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 01:20:07 GMT References: <1990Nov13.211634.28152@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@lanl.gov Reply-To: scp@acl.lanl.gov Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM Lines: 31 In-reply-to: andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu's message of 13 Nov 90 21:16:34 GMT on 13 Nov 90 21:16:34 GMT, andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) said: [ ... much deleted ] Andy> The greatest kick down in the global research environment will come when these Andy> systems are truly remote and distributed. [ ... ] Andy> It would be ideal if Bob got his simulation running with some interactive way Andy> to change the incident angle (a dial on the screen) and calls Sue. Sue Andy> sparks her visual server so she can watch what Bob sees. Sue is in San Diego, Andy> BTW, and Bob is at Cornell. Compression schemes and high-speed nets Andy> will help this. Now Sue can change the widget or Bob can change the widget. Andy> If I were teaching a class on the subject I could lock out student access Andy> to the widgets. [ ... ] Andy> Given processing speeds, network speeds, and enough disk, this could all be Andy> done. Folks at NCSA are already working on/doing this sort of stuff in conjuction with the gigabit testbeds. I think the lingo is something like ``collaborative visualization''. stephen pope advanced computing lab, lanl scp@acl.lanl.gov