OT: Multi-dimension (was: A wacky language)
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 5, 2004, 13:41 |
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I had a look. Sounds not bad, but in fact it's just a
reporting tool, like Business Objects, even if it
seems to be easier for the final user (maybe not for
the person handling with the parameters ?)
I was thinking of real 3d-visualization. In fact,
there is something approaching it a little bit in
Excel (3d-histograms and so on), but it's still rather
primitive - and flat.
Imagine your screen would be a transparent cube, or
sphere, and you could wander around, or make it rotate
(well, rotating it would be more practical than
wandering around, I guess), and really see things in
3d.
Imagine you could visualize the structure of a
semantic sentence, in 3d and colour...
As someone said, "I had a dream..."
--- jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> Philippe Caquant scripsit:
>
> > But I think one day we will have a 3-dimensional
> > Windows, or Excel. THAT will be exciting. Hey Mr
> > Gates, what are you waiting for ? 3-dimensional
> > screens, maybe.
>
> Lotus Improv (unfortunately not available) and
> Quantrix Modeler
> (unfortunately too expensive) provide just such a
> multi-dimensional
> spreadsheet capability. See
>
http://www.quantrix.com.
> There is a 30-day trial offered; for Windows only.
>