-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting
-phase. Some working parts are already implemented, and can be run as a
-demo or as a library in other projects, if you are computer
-programmer. System is far from being useful for non programmers (Pre
-alpha).
-
-
-Implemented and working features:
-- First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.
-- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
-
-
-[[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/applet.html][Run Sixth 3D/GUI demos as Java applet]]
-
-
-System is implemented in Java because:
-- It scales well to handle great complexity.
-- It is easy to refactor and experiment with.
-- It is fast enough thanks to Java virtual machine just-in-time compiler.
-- Easy to run on various hardware platforms and operating systems.
-
-** 3D rendering
-
-3D rendering is done in software, 100% pure Java on CPU. At least for
-now. Modern CPU cores count keeps growing and therefore rendering by
-CPU is not as expensive as it used to be for the old single core
-systems.
-
-CPU rendering performance is already good enough to implement usable
-3D UI at sufficient detail level, resolution and frame rate.
-
-Pure Java also means easy portability and installation. No need to
-deal with platform specific dependencies.
-
-Also CPU rendering allows to easily test different rendering algorithms
-and retains complete control of every rendered pixel.
-
-* Vision
-- Human computer symbiosis to unleash full potential of human mind and
- computer.
-- A tool to amplify human ability.
-
-** Key ideas from user perspective
-- Helps/assists in understanding, discovering, learning and creating
- things by being very visual and interactive. (I think of
- problems/solutions visually and I want user interface/experience to
- reflect that)
-
-- Properly visualizes and immerses user in completely various forms of
- information and provides intuitive and powerful ways to explore,
- interact and manipulate it with fast feedback loop to immediately
- see results.
-
-- I like this quote:
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
-
-** Key technical ideas
-System should make use of distributed computing like SSI or/and Hadoop
-for greater performance and reliability.
-
-System should use some overlay network to enable secure and reliable
-and easy to use communication between any process on any networked
-computer as well as human to human communication.
-* Software development
-Instructions to embed Sixth in your project as a library. Maven
-*pom.xml* file snippet:
-#+BEGIN_SRC xml
-<dependencies>
- ...
- <dependency>
- <groupId>eu.svjatoslav</groupId>
- <artifactId>sixth</artifactId>
- <version>1.2</version>
- </dependency>
- ...
-</dependencies>
-
-<repositories>
- ...
- <repository>
- <id>svjatoslav.eu</id>
- <name>Svjatoslav repository</name>
- <url>http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/maven/</url>
- </repository>
- ...
-</repositories>
-#+END_SRC
-
-[[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/codegraphs/][Auto-generated graphs for parts of Sixth code/architecture]] using [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/javainspect/doc/index.html][this
-tool]]
-
-* Ideas to possibly consider/incorporate in the future
-
-- Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
- - Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and
- question answering. This could potentially lead to self aware
- artificial intelligence. Because of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics]["Three laws safe"]] design,
- there is nothing that can go wrong.
-
-- Become an alternative to or an integrated part of KDE, Gnome,
- Canonical Unity or similar desktop user interfaces.
-
-- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data
- as an alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
-
-- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction
- and processing, similar to IBM Watson.
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