[2] A shortage of parameters (contributes to excuse [1] - why write it if it won't work anyway?) [3] Needed some unified approach to specifying rotations ([2] gets in the way of this, of course)

The last feature was crucial in my opinion. There seemed little point to me in going on about the thing being 8-dimensional if one couldn't cut said 8-dimensional object with an arbitrary 2-dimensional plane for rendering. What would be a reasonable way of specifying such a thing to make navigation convenient? I was thinking something involving hyperspherical coordinates to establish an orientation, and then offsetting it from the origin. The tricky bit is to minimise the number of user parameters - basically, it makes sense to define the system so that the normal viewport translations/rotations are part of it, 'cos then we don't need to specify them in the user parameters.

Morgan L. Owens

I agree. Sounds like a job for the SSG... _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail