Area 1.0

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

The SrrTrains v0.01 project has been re-started. The new goal is the release “Fiat A” (https://lc-soc-lc.at/host).

Have a nice week,

Yours CP/V

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

This time I took a few hours to write a new hobby report about my long-abandoned project SrrTrains.

I stripped off the “3D Thing” and I put the remotely controlled model railroad into a real railway coach, to make the story more intriguing for us railway people.

The .pdf has been uploaded to my S&P-ARK repository:
https://github.com/christoph-v/spark/blob/master/3rd-party-input/SrrTrains-v0.01/HobbyReportsNew/MAR-MOR-vs-RC-MOR.pdf

Have a nice week,

Yours CP/V

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

Due to the fact, that my member space at my cable Internet provider will vanish soon, I have invested a few hours, and

I collected all the information about the historic SrrTrains v0 01 project at one single URL:

• Home of SrrTrains (new URL): https://lc-soc-lc.at/host

Have a nice week

Yours Christoph

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D Graphics,

I have been carrying an idea with me since a long time ago.

I planned to do some experiments with WebRTC and IP Multicast, in order to have some very simple “Open Source Conferencing Tool” for voice and screensharing for small associations that do not want to share their precious communication with some server operators (like Discord or similar).

Now, the other members of the “Society for Computer Based Collaboration” (https://lc-soc-lc.or.at) agreed they will help me to test such tool, should I find the time to implement it.

Sure, this will take some months or years, but I think, the goal is worth it.

This decision has been documented on the page of the project 006: https://lc-soc-lc.or.at/project-006-feas-f/index.html.

Have a nice week,

Yours Christoph

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

As I had announced in January, I seized the Winter holidays, so I migrated our ownCloud instance into a Nextcloud instance.

Currently, this is easily possible, as described at https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/maintenance/migrating_owncloud.html,

but when we calculate the two products can drift apart, database wise and code wise, it will not be so easy in the near future any more.

The link to our own cloud is still the same, best you visit our homepage and follow the links: https://lc-soc-lc.at.

Have a nice week,

Yours Christoph

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

I may have mentioned it already: we at the “Society for Lifelong Collaborating” (https://lc-soc-lc.or.at) occasionally use a cloud software named OwnCloud on our vServer.

We use this software to share documents and other files with each other and we use the online calendar that comes with this OwnCloud software.

Now I came to knowledge of a rumour, according to which the providers of OwnCloud are going more commercial, where the software Nextcloud (which is similar to OwnCloud) will remain to be a pure open source approach.

I have to check this. Therefore I will use a few days of my upcoming vacations to look after all this.

I will report about the outcome.

Have a nice week,

Yours Christoph

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

My latest posting from July 2024 (see HERE) was about me reaching some point, where I did not know, how to proceed.

Now, I am hesitating, and we – the Society for Lifelong Collaborating have talked in our latest General Assembly, about how to proceed.

Well, I personally shall and will look around and think about how the SrrTrains project could become a part of our agenda. Kevin and Wolfgang will continue with their projects, which are also related to 3D graphics.

Hence, I have updated the homepage of our association and added the new projects: https://lc-soc-lc.or.at/projects.htm

Have a happy new year

Yours Christoph

In my last post I wrote that I had prematurely abandoned Project 003 (Experiments with DIS).

It was private reasons that more or less forced me to take that step.

But John has now made good progress with his JSONverse, so I’m wondering whether I could reuse some of the JSONverse to ultimately put SrrTrains on a future-proof WebGL basis.

Metaphorically: does that mean that I’ve crossed the Red Sea?

Of course not yet!

But I’m standing on the shore of the Red Sea, so to speak – with the Egyptians at my back – and I’ve decided that my future ultimately lies on the other shore.

Says

Yours Christoph

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D,

Today, I have closed project 003 (DIS Experiments using FreeWRL) of the “Society for Computer-Aided Collaboration” (https://lc-soc-lc.or.at).

Please have a look to the latest demo video: https://lc-soc-lc.at/owncloud/index.php/s/TB6xeoBJFl0M83f (Cloud Password: HalloWelt).

Have a nice week,

CP/V

Dear Friends of Realtime 3D

You might remember that we had founded an association last year, the “society for computer aided collaboration” (https://lc-soc-lc.or.at).

Last Thursday, on July 4th, we had our 5th monthly chat hour, where we chatted about the future.

Kevin volunteers to care for our VPN in following way: we want  to support our VPN not only for Windows clients, but also for LINUX, Mac, iOS and Android clients. The challenges are to support IP multicast and the correct configuration of the OpenVPN server on our vServer and of the OpenVPN clients on all operating systems.

Wolfgang wants to have a closer look to the Blender authoring tool and I will continue to test and document some aspects of the DIS implementation of FreeWrl.

Have a nice week

Yours Christoph (CP/V)