RealityPrime

The post on LLPrimitives is coming soon. This interstitial post is just to convey my frustration in trying to deliver a simple blog post with 2D vector (pseudo-3D) graphics. Never mind my original aim to use SVG with interactive sliders to help explain some basic 3D prim concepts.That could still probably be done, but not easily in Wordpress, I’m discovering. And frankly, I don’t have any time left to play around with it, or hack my PHP.

So the final solution seems to be to deliver a basic Word (2003) doc to Scribd and let you experience it that way, which is to say, as Flash. The fact that most of the world still delivers its graphics as bitmaps means, to me, that even the 2D world has a long, long way to go.

It’s funny. I encounter alot of people in my travels who distrust 3D solutions (with good reason) and assert (somewhat naively, IMO) "Why not just do it in 2D? It’s easier."

My answer is now going to be, "No, it’s not! 2D sucks just as much for doing anything novel and interactive that works across browsers and systems. If you have to start over anyway, why not do it in 3D?"

There. I feel much better now.

P.S. Let me know if you can’t see the test below. I may not have made it public on Scribd, but it’s just a few overapping circles.

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