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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread here's looking at you... #127465 04/17/2004 4:46 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I ran across a new word, voxel, in this article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/16/tech/main612179.shtml OneLook has it, but I think it's an interesting coinage. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: here's looking at you... #127466 04/17/2004 4:51 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 My first guess was that it was an element of a sound file. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: here's looking at you... #127467 04/17/2004 4:58 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California I've seen voxel used in VRML (virtual reality markup language) docs. That takes it back a least 5 years I'd think. Could be wrong. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: here's looking at you... #127468 04/17/2004 5:18 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I guess I should take out "new" in my first post, or add "to me"... but the VRML ref makes sense, since we're talking 3D. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: here's looking at you... #127469 04/17/2004 5:34 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Not a problem. Sometimes I think about the words and technologies that didn't take. Remember bubble memory? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: here's looking at you... #127470 04/17/2004 5:49 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont bubble memory yup. it was going to go froth and conquer... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Take a walk on the wild side #127471 04/17/2004 6:45 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Speaking of technologies that didn't take... or aren't allowed to... yet... http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm What's taking them so long??? ***** Voxel technologies are as old as sonic imaging. Sonar technologies are finaly being input and processing is finally getting fast enough in the commercial/private sector for comparisons en-masse. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Take a walk on the wild side #127472 04/17/2004 7:30 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont What's taking them so long??? reefer madness... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Take a walk on the wild side #127473 04/17/2004 9:57 PM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California What's taking them so long??? Yeah, where's my autogyro and jet pack? Or should that question be posed in Ido, Esperanto, or Volapük? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Take a walk on the wild side #127474 04/17/2004 11:23 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Place I used to work at in the 1980's had a pile of 1930's Popular Mechanics magazines in the men's reading room. The AMC Pacer automobile of the '80s looked like what they thought in the '30s cars were going to look like in 50 years, except the Pacer had wheels. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Take a walk on the wild side #127475 04/17/2004 11:51 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont AMC Pacer like this! http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1977_AMC_Pacer.jpg and of course I couldn't not post this one... http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/19xx_AMC_Pacer_limo.jpg formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: would you like fries with that? #127476 04/17/2004 11:55 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I'm not sure about this one... http://www.arcticboy.com/media/tv/Bnlpacer/bnl_pacer2.jpg where is that thread about scary clowns?... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Test drive a Casablanca #127477 04/18/2004 12:17 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.-Rick Blaine http://www.casablanca.tv/newindex.cfm?showcontent=true&linkID=974 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Take a walk on the wild side #127478 04/18/2004 1:25 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 This is a little more like the Pacer I had in mind. http://www.telecosoft.com/pacer/AMC-Pacer-2.jpg Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... 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