From ernst.kruijff@archit.uni-weimar.de Tue Aug 25 03:02:33 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA04177 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 03:02:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IDENT:Uy7OWwzGKtB93x9kPXjP0TOnP9B3M3/g@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA12423 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 03:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de (root@tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de [141.54.1.3]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA09408 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:02:07 PDT Received: from klee6 (klee6.architektur.uni-weimar.de [141.54.118.171]) by tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA29745 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:00:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <35E26234.5C22@archit.uni-weimar.de> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:05:24 +0200 From: Ernst Kruijff Organization: InfAR X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [de] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: COSMO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Hi All, About COSMO - I heared from a thrustfull source that SGI is quiting the COSMO development department, that's all. I also know, in command to Ivan's mail, that Java 3D is increasing in popularity, but do we REALLY need it? I mean, at this moment there is a reasonably high support of VRML in true VR applications. I personally could not name one real VR application which supports Java 3D. Anyone? Cheerio, -Ernst -- ...... Dipl.-Drs. Ernst Kruijff ...... Bauhaus-University Weimar Computer Science in Architecture and Urban Planning (Donath) Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 7, 99421 Weimar, Germany Ernst.Kruijff@archit.uni-weimar.de http://www.uni-weimar.de/~kruijff/ tel. (0) 3643 - 584209 | fax. (0) 3643 - 584202 ...... Private: Schlossgasse 17/19, 99423 Weimar, Germany tel. (0) 3643 - 902033