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I'm a new developer, charged with the responsibility of exploring the potential
of Croquet for educational use. In 2001, with a LOT of help from the Squeak
community, I developed an application called ConceptLab that I demoed at ACM
Hypertext 2001, so I have some experience, though not recent, of work with the
Squeak development environment as well as with eToys.
Brian Tabone's InformationSpace gives me the impression that while each Croquet
world is on the server, there is no necessity for multiple people to use it;
each person could use it by themselves, and Mark McCahill's Non-Player
Characters opens the possibility of embodied abstractions as 'characters' in a
virtual world.
Would it be possible to have a Croquet world that is a concept space for
individual exploration of multiple points-of-view (POV) and levels-of-detail
(LOD)?
I want free interaction with a simulation consisting of a world where
context-sensitive objects know what is in their current environment and how
their environment modifies their basic nature and can employ reflection to
describe this to other objects and to free agents exploring the world. I'd
like to be able to have the interactions able to modify the objects so that
they are persistently changed.
The domain I have in mind, is the hypertext research space, initially
consisting of the people, institutions, projects, papers, conferences, and
concepts of ACM SIGWEB, from 1986 to the present. I want to explore the
evolution of concepts, with name and semantic changes over time, and be able to
examine multiple different levels of detail and points of view at the same
time, in the same space.
I'd like to be able to record sessions, including persistent object
modifications, to play back as tools for further exploration, including
'what-if' simulations. For example, what if URLs had been in separate link
bases instead of being embedded in text so that WWW users could craft their own
link spaces over different documents.
Is this fantasy a possiblity with Croquet?
Thanks,
Rosemary
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