From: Svjatoslav Agejenko Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:39:50 +0000 (+0300) Subject: updated documentation X-Git-Url: http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth-3d-demos.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5450ec935f0ee3a02b22a502d53e68f10614de8 updated documentation --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 26b6b1a..981c582 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -# Created by .ignore support plugin (hsz.mobi) /.idea/ +/target/ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/doc/index.org b/doc/index.org index ad3fe89..d3438e3 100644 --- a/doc/index.org +++ b/doc/index.org @@ -16,128 +16,13 @@ - [[http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp][other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu]] -* Current status -[[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/screenshots/index.html][http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/screenshots.png]] +* Description +Goal of this project is to show off capabilities of [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][Sixth 3D]] engine. Also to +show examples of its usage. +[[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/screenshots/index.html][http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/screenshots.png]] Sample scenes rendered at interactive framerates by Sixth 3D engine. -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 - - ... - - eu.svjatoslav - sixth - 1.2 - - ... - - - - ... - - svjatoslav.eu - Svjatoslav repository - http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/maven/ - - ... - -#+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. -- P2P (Peer to peer) capabilities: - - File/data sharing system. - - Data streaming system. - - Distributed backup system. - - Distributed computation system. - - Communication system. - - Possibility of completely decentralized and stealth mode of operation for information publishing, storage and distribution, similar to Freenet.