>some years ago I was also excited about the idea to use 3d structures to
>navigate comlex systems... It's interesting that nearly every proposal or
>discussion on this topic hopes to find solutions in right-angled 3d spaces
>with avatars and visualized data objects...
>One should think about the axis of these 'virtual spaces' and it's units and
>get rid of the cartesian model, or better, include simulated meat spaces as
>one possible *display* of a more complex model.
>udo
?why is it that both the cartesian and the perspectival have become the
dominant modes of spatial representation within 'netspace' (extending
'netspace' beyond the internet to encompass any representational image
space which can created, replicated, modifed, and distributed...)
where (and who?) are the EN-visioneers of this space...?
to what extent has the initial marketability of the 'user-friendly' (and by
this i mean 'familiar to the user') interface (c.1980) created an
economically driven template for this space which, based on familiar (all
too familiar) codes for spatial description and organization, effectively
minimizes the potential within market driven culture for the substitution
of that template with an other...
what's at stake here?
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