Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 22:38:48 09/05/05
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Really strange that you should mention this - about 3 years or so back , me and a couple of collegues at work were discussing just such an idea .. an immersive 3d environment - ofcourse we were not thinking in terms of chess at that time (other than me , no one else in the group was interested in chess). When we came to know of lookingglass internally (http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/) - before it was released outside , we even thought about modifying it or 'adding a theme' to it to prototype our ideas. Roughly , the idea was more of something like a house with different 'rooms' which you enter for different purpose (work , entertainment , play , etc) - a glorified 3d desktop changer based on the required functionality if you want to call it. We were sick and tired of the flat 'deskboard' approach to GUI in pc's. Considering the lack of UI expertise (we were only good programmers , not UI design experts) the idea fizzled out- but we did come up with some good ideas , stored away to be used later :) I will bounce this idea off Vincent ... let us see where we can take it (if he does buy into it ofcourse :) ). Nice idea, thanks a lot ! Regards, Mridul On September 05, 2005 at 16:59:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I guess that due to time pressure and the work already done it is impossible to >implement my ideas, even if you and they would want to do it. They are not just >a matter of a frill and some whistles here and there. It is the full core >concept of a ches program. >Just to give you an example of the scale of what I have in mind, just think, to >begin with, in the chess program acting like the full desktop theme of the PC, >being the chess part only one of the elements of it. Suppose the metaphore of a >rich studio with wooden furniture, drawers where you get into action perhaps a >word processor AND in some corner the chss table with the pieces representing >the program. >This is just an example of the Gui part. >Add to that tbe residents functions I see for such a program and....well...too >many things for doing of the chess program NOT just ONE program into the PC, but >the chess companion that assist you in anything AND in chess. >By example, the last one I give you here, think of the engine examining your >games EVEN if you are not using the program, but anything else with the PC. >And many more.I really think these ideas are a matter of lot of time for a fll >proram and cannot be implemented on the fly right now >If you all later are interested in the deails, let me know. >My best >Fernando
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