Forum: Vue


Subject: Computer Graphics World 2001 Innovation Awards

Doc Mojo opened this issue on Dec 14, 2001 ยท 39 posts


Doc Mojo posted Mon, 17 December 2001 at 8:02 AM

I would like that--a MojoVue. I hate to see all the duplicated effort in all these different apps, when there are so many interesting new problems to solve; new functionality to implement for all. But for historical reasons, it's rarely possible. MetaCreations was a conglomeration of a lot of disparate companies with disparate products. Once united under the Meta banner, users rightly expected them to interact seamlessly. But, in fact, the code bases had nothing in common, the engineering groups remained separate, and such integration never happened. Software design is in its infancy. We're still building houses of cards, for the most part. We've designed MW as well as we are able, to be able to grow and mature gracefully. MW's open architecture allows, in theory, it to communicate well with other programs. So, in the future, we'll look at making MW use other programs as plug-ins, and, where possible, letting MW serve as a plug-in to others. MW has the procedural texture engine from hell under the hood. Everything is implemented in 4 dimensions, too. So the MW texture engine should be ported to all programs that have open architectures that support such plug-ins. -Mo PS- In the end, it always comes down to the precious resource of programmer's time. Lack of that is why these things rarely are actualized.