P3D Re: 3D-CD question...

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Burns wrote:

> My copy just arrived, so I haven't got too far into it yet.  I like the
> packaging, and including the glasses is a great idea.

Thanks. I really like the label myself! =) For those who don't know,
there has been a change to the inclusions going with the CD. The glasses
included are: 1 pair of Chromadepth handheld glasses from Chromatek, 1
handheld red/green anaglyph pair from David Burder, and one extra
red/blue anaglyph pair from me to round out the set.

> So far it seems easy to get to the content, and putting links to the
> current web versions of the included sites is handy to check for
> updates.

Great! The links are provided to allow the 3D-CD to be valuable for a
long time to come.

> I can't begin to comprehend the amount of work you put into this
> project.  Congratulations on a great job, and thanks for putting
> together this unique time-slice of the 3D web.

It has been a lot of work, but it was/is a lobor of love. Knowing that
others who love 3D will/would benefit from it is part of what kept the
project alive over those months of development time.

> One note on searching the CD; I have on my computer the AltaVista
> Personal Indexer for Win95, and just used it to index my entire system,
> including the 3D-CD.  I can now use the retrieval program, in
> conjunction with Netscape (also works with IE), to provide a local
> interface identical to the web-based AltaVista search engine; this
> allows searching by word or phrase of all indexed items on my computer.
> 
> This makes it extremely easy to retrieve information from the 3D-CD -
> for example, a search for "realist red button" instantly returned 398
> documents from the CD.  Interestingly, restricting the search to
> documents which also contain the word "Themelis" only cuts this down to
> 297 matches, although I suspect this is because each digest is a single
> document, and there are few digests which don't contain this word
> somewhere in the text!

Sounds fantastic. I downloaded that recently, and will try it when I get
some free time! ;-)

Thanks for the start of the response about the project. Any others yet?

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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