Problems storing 3D-objects

[Konrad Rosenbaum <ko...@silmor.de>]

Hi,

a friend of mine runs a small restaurant and wants to professionalize his 
IT. Our idea was to store everything in subversion (we use Debian with svn 
1.3). We had absolutely no problems with the 2D objects, converting recipes 
to ASCII and storing them was peanuts. However the 3D objects are giving us 
a headache - the forks and knifes are stuck in the keyboard, we even 
destroyed a floppy drive trying to read an apple.

Any ideas how we can still use SVN to store everything?



	happy 1st April,
	Konrad

AW: Problems storing 3D-objects

[Thomas Hemmer <th...@go-engineering.de>]

Hmmm,

appears like you had more of a hardware problem?

Anyway, in your special case of having to store forks and knives (which commonly
*do not change* their shapes and properties as time goes by) you should perhaps
consider using a database rather than svn. Today's software market offers
several products featuring a so-called "spatial option" in order to support 3D
data (Oracle, PostGreSQL, ...).

But, since particle digitizers are still *very* expensive, I would prefer to
store those objects using some conventional means like drawers; AFAIK this is a
proven method. Especially in the case of a *small* restaurant you should not
neglect financial aspects. Maybe the situation will change in the near future
when particle digitizing and rendering will become more affordable.

Apples should generally rather easy to handle; simply call their eat() method
instead of trying to digitize them. Recent biological research has proven that
re-materializing fruits mofifies the contained acids and leads to a bad taste.

Hope this helps to relieve your headache?!


Regards,

Thomas



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