[cap-talk] User interface discussion, role based geometry editing

[Kevin Reid]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:19, John Carlson wrote:
> Of course I'm not asking if RBAC has been done with capabilities.  I'm
> asking if a collaborative geometry (CAD/Animation) application has
> been done with capabilities.  Say you're an engineering firm working
> on a complex project, and you want to distribute work to different
> firms, yet maintain as much control as possible of your project
> (perhaps by distributing images of the high level objects instead of
> the actual models).  Or say you're a movie production studio, and you
> want to distribute animation to several firms, but you don't want to
> give away the plot of the movie.  Or say you're an architectural firm,
> and you want to grant the ability for an interior design firm to
> populate the interior of your building without changing the structure.

I think this problem is like an offline version of a virtual world  
which keeps secrets (as for puzzles); it might be worth looking at  
what can be found of the Electric Communities work [0], or Martin  
Scheffler's EMonkey [1].

I seem to remember some description (probably on erights.org or the e- 
lang list) [2] of the (concept? actually implemented?) scenario of a  
large crowd which is rendered as a vague mass except for those  
characters which the viewer already knows, which is an instance of  
your category.

[0] http://www.erights.org/history/
[1] http://home.flowdev.de/wordpress/?p=28
[2] I failed to find it.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>