From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Jeff Pierce
[jpierce@cs.cmu.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 5:31 PM
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Topic: dynamically creating (copies of) objects

At 05:34 PM 8/11/00, Raimund Dachselt wrote:
>I enjoyed reading your thoughts on the topic of object copies in virtual 
>worlds. With your detailed ideas you really did not leave much room for us 
>to throw in new ones...

That's hardly true.  I'm sure there are lots of cool uses of multiple
copies I haven't thought of.  That's one of the reasons I'm trying to get a
discussion going.  =)

>- Probably the most important: Since the original car could heavily be 
>changed in appearance (parts be removed or made transparant so that only 
>say the braking system was visible) it would have been difficult to still 
>know the position of the remaining parts within the car. The copy gives you 
>a clear sense of the parts' position.

I particularly like this one: having multiple copies of an object allows me
to focus in on a particular part in one copy, while keeping track of the
part in context in another copy.

Did you guys ever publish this work?  If so, could you give me a reference?

Thanks,
Jeff