Dreaming about 3d
When i was around 19 years old, I had a waking dream about how kids would learn about how atoms work.
I could, in this waking dream, see how a person could visualize, in 3d, the makeup of the atom and be able to navigate through the way they wanted to learn how the atom worked.
I didnt know or imagine virtual reality or anything like that. I didnt think about how someone would select where they wanted to travel, say to the nucleus and visualize the workings of neutrons or protons.
I imagined the scene floating in front of the student and they could travel or manipulate their journey.
I didnt remember the visualization till this morning when I was putting together how I could enhance my 3d scenes.
There are complex visualizations needed to explain what happens to mrna in the ribosome or what attaches to the lysosome protein as it is forming in the rough ER and Golgi complex.
It would be overwhelming and distracting if I showed all the molecular behaviors. After all, most people don't understand chemical behavior. So I thought, I can show the chemical complexity but only if the viewer decides that's what they want to see.
So now im thinking, I will change my program so that when the user clicks on an object and they are presented with a list, that list also presents a possible 3d scene delving deeper into the complexity of the object by opening a different 3d scene that presents that complexity and then after completing, it would return to the very place where it left off reopening the scene they left at the same position.
That way, they could dig as deep as they want and have the capability to return where they left off. That's pretty much how webpages work today, except this would be in 3d.
So that's one of the things I will concentrate on.
Pierre
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