Dr. J's Programming Languages and Virtual Environments Research Blog

Caveat: I have no respect for the blogging phenomenon, and do not condone blogging by any party for any reason.

The purpose of this page is simple: it is to enable me to throw away various scraps of paper on which vital, top-secret research ideas are written. These ideas might or might not be useful. If you steal one, without crediting it, shame on you.

Persistent Virtual GUICurses

GUICurses is my C-language simplified graphics library. What if that same API were usable from within a virtual environment? What if avatars could EASILY

write directly on walls
post pictures
etc.

in (possibly a subset of) the C language, in the virtual environment? For this we need EZ dynamic loading, a naming system, a network protocol.

CVE Revision Control System

What kinds of revision control are available for collaborative virtual environments? How can you easily see edit logs for things like textures? On the flip side, should "visualization of CVS logs" give way to "virtual environments for interacting with CVS logs"?