Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Second Life and Open Source
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> | Each "sim" or simulator of a portion of the virtual world in Second
> | Life is created on a server running Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, Squid
> | and MySQL; currently there are several thousand of these PC boxes.
> | To allow for fast response times, the virtual world is sent not as
> | pixels or even as a mesh, but as a series of 3D primitives -
> | "prims". The Second Life client creates the world by converting
> | the stream of information about prims and their position into
> | a visual representation.
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"prims"? Yet more re-inventing the wheel.
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