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Who needs them?
The quality of production of the JOI site is
quite good. X3D/VRML can be whatever artists, scientists, communicators of
all kinds need it to be as long as they have
the skills to produce high quality work. I don't know who built JOI,
but I
recognize high quality work.
In the XML world there is a nasty habit of
calling out people who aren't 'contributors' and saying, 'we don't have to
pay attention to people who aren't
"contributors"'. It's a nasty habit because it usually is just one person
or persons
singling out someone who isn't contributing
to 'their kind of content'. It's such bull. The strength
of the web as
a freely associative system is that there
are all kinds of content for all kinds of people with different tastes, needs,
and wants. The VRML community has
traditionally been tolerant and supportive of freedom of _expression_. I'd
hate to think that is changing.
To some, archaeology is a world of dead
people made by stuffed shirts.
See how easy that is to do. And how
classless. Badgirl could save VRML better than a fella
with degree
in CompSci simply because she creates
something people actually want.
I don't look at art for morality. That
was Hitler's schtick. He was never more than a mediocre painter
of scenes because he didn't have the skill
to paint the human form. Because of his inadequate talents,
he ordered his minions to raid the museums
and remove every great work that portrayed nudes. He
wrote rules for art and sent inspectors to
ensure that those who painted or sculpted didn't break those
rules and those that did were sent to the
camps. Something dark and terrible of that mindset is
rising from the dead in the West.
Something... cruel, a hateful laugh, the dry tinder of sneering
scornful abuse dismissing the human heart in
the name of fearful, jealous moral superiority. I
don't fear these. I fight
them.
I look at art for beauty. Be
it an ancient castle, a fantastic sci-fi world, or the splendid
curves
of the human form, if it is high
quality, it is beautiful. Let it
be.
len
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