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11.07.09Linden Lab at War: Virtual Worlds and Human TechnologyYou rez a prim in Second Life and you add another prim or two and you have a house, and suddenly your brain starts to believe that there's a sort of pattern of extrapolation everywhere you look: the smallest thing is part of something larger, or has the potential to be part of something larger still, and suddenly I'm at the book store and I start wondering about who chose to categorize the magazines the way they did, why the titles about Photoshop are under art but the ones on 3D design are lumped together in the gaming section, or ...
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04.10.09OpenSim and Rezzing Textures: 200% Increase in Load SpeedsA code patch to OpenSim by one of our developers, Tom Grimshaw, has contributed to a 200-300% increase in texture loading efficiency and speed. The patch was developed in an attempt to address the issue of 'grey textures', textures that get 'stuck' and never seem to appear, and textures in the distance appearing before those closest to your avatar. As Tom notes, the result in initial tests includes: - Increased packet efficiency greatly, less wasted bandwidth - Shaken the texture clog issue where textures stopped being delivered - Implemented texture priorities properly, nearer objects load first - Reduced memory usage per connected client VERY ...
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