Re: FLASH: 3D Wow!

[John Dowdell]

At 4:29 PM 2/20/0, Wayne Townsend wrote:

> Check out the whitepaper & the comparison to flash.

> http://www.pulse3d.com/developers/whitepaper.html


fwiw, there are common roots between Pulse and Macromedia... Young Harvill

created the core player, and also created the original VR tool Swivel 3D,

later licensed to Paracomp. This firm joined with MacroMind to form

MacroMind*Paracomp, which later joined with Authorware to become

Macromedia. During this time Young was developing "the engine" which later

became MacroModel, which then expanded into Extreme 3D. You could see some

of his early realtime 3D players in the "FreezeTag" demos of 1996 or so.


Drew Pictures is another thread in this... many of these folks worked at

Paracomp or MacroMind before going on to make 3D CDs, and they also helped

form the core of the Pulse group.


If you're interested in realtime 3D on the web, then it seems like a good

thing to enquire into their developer program.


jd







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