User talk:Burhop Piccard/Geometry Based Architecture View

Given Zero Linden's discussion on Oct 30th and an earlier disucssion at the AWGroupies meeting, I'm hoping we can reformulate the Geometry and Physics discusions to provide better input to the AWG. This is an intial stab at something that:

• Provides useful information to the AWG as they define the components and comunication protocols.
• Meets the needs of content creators that want greater variety of geometric content and better support for current and future creation tools.
• Can be incrementally implemented starting with existing SL geometry.

It needs much discussion so please feel free to add your thoughts here. --Burhop Piccard 19:17, 30 October 2007 (PDT)

I updated the geometry model following the SLDEV discussion on this topics (see https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/2007-October/006237.html and additional emails in November for more information) The main differences are:

• Changes to the "Client Side Library" so only one Application plugs into a "Reusable Client Side Library".
• Clarification on SL data versus non-SL data.
• More explicit link between non-SL data stored on the Agent domain and the Viewer. Data in Format F or G must have an equivilent F or G Renderer in the Viewer

Burhop Piccard 15:21, 3 November 2007 (PDT)

Communication

• QUOTE: "Third party applications wanting to upload data to an asset server would value thoughput over latency and granularity. ... Communication with the viewer requires minimum latency and greater control of the input stream."

• I think we can safely assume that we'll have both comms optimizations available, to use as required. Even a simple dual high+low priority streams approach would give us much of the flexibility needed in this area. Nobody has started off a Communications VAG yet (I hesitate to start it myself :P), but this kind of requirement will certainly need to be captured somewhere, and the Geometry/Physics VAG isn't the right place for it, except as a use case. --Morgaine Dinova 13:47, 4 November 2007 (PST)