[vos-d] parameterized views

[Peter Amstutz]

Your view is a filtered subset of the topic :-)

I mean views in an abstract sense of a filtered or transformed version 
of some underlying data set.  So in our examples, an area of interest 
"view" is a subset of all the avatars in the entire world, an revision 
control "view" is the state of the repository at a particular point in 
time out of all revisions, and an animation "view" is the position of 
all the scene elements at a particular point in time out of all 
keyframes.

Think of a database view (where the contents of one table is defined in 
terms of a SELECT statement into one or more other tables) or the 
Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, where where the "view" is a 
transformed presentation of the underlying model.

You're right that it's also a common to use describe a position and 
direction in a scene as a "view", but if it helps the discussion that 
use should be called a "viewpoint" or "camera".

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:27:15AM -0700, S Mattison wrote:
> I'm not sure if my view of this topic is correct. By 'views', do you mean
> the server controls how the client's camera should act within that world?
> This makes sense. Even if you are doing a "straightforward world
> connection".
> 
> In a world like Counterstrike, you are placed into a 'free 3d-watch' camera
> view, a first-person, no-avatar view, where you may view the map at your
> leisure. Of course, on connect the server also initiates a 2d menu, giving
> you your options as to which team you wish to join. (While I do think it
> would be nice for VOS to support widgets such as buttons and pulldown menus,
> it's certainly not a priority)
> -Steve

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