Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think.com!linus!agate!shelby!neon!neon!peda From: peda@modesty.Stanford.EDU (Bill Codding) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization Subject: AVS Network Abstraction Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 16:03:37 GMT Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: None to Speak Of Lines: 26 In article <4023@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> wave@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson) writes: > First of all, the coarseness of the networks being built > hides an obvious lack - functional abstraction. Visual programming is a > wonderful prototyping environment, but when it comes time to use it to > build a large system, you really want the ability to "black-box" networks. > What begins to happen is that you want to functionally abstract certain > subnetworks into modules in a larger network. About a year ago, when we began looking at doing serious AVS work, I approached one of the AVS development heads about network abstraction in almost the same words as above. I was told that this was already being looked at for future AVS releases. I believe that 2 releases have gone by since, so I don't know what their timetable was (or is) for this. -Bill Codding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Codding (415)493-3554 (w) Research Engineer (415)751-5484 (h) P.E.D.A. peda@simplicity.Stanford.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------