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| | Change Project: VRML |
 | | The company offices reflected VRML's roots, struck as deeply in a visual aesthetic drive as in technological know-how: cheap, in an old brick building up steep, dark stairs, the offices themselves were light, airy, open, and punctuated with visuals, big posters, larger-than-life sculptures, an elephant-size hammock. |
 | | We toured on a powerful workstation, but most VRML software is designed to work well on a high-end 486 machine, a fairly standard personal computer. |
 | | The argument at the core of the next stage of VRML seems nearly philosophical, nearly god-like: a lot of things become a lot easier if you assume that the world you are setting out to create is finite, bounded, small enough to all fit on one computer at once. |
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