Croquet 2 Play

This project seems like a good place for Croquet 2 play.

The blogosphere is abuzz with PloppSL - even the critics say it’s cool and hope it gets better.  A number of folks point out that it’s free and does something very useful. I’d add that it’s also not a 1.0 release yet. Here are some representative links:

Shiny Life(detailed step-by-step video tutorial)

New World Notes: Sculpties Made Simple

Plopp Second Life: Even a child can do sculpties 

3Greeneggs: Plopp has potential but flops

I’m most pleased to report (although somewhat belatedly) that HP (Hewlett-Packard) has joined the Croquet Consortium as a founding member and that HP Labs’ Rick McGeer is serving on our growing Board of Directors.

Julian Lombardi’s Blog: HP Joins the Consortium!

The popular Biovision Hierarchy(BVH) used for many human avatars(Second Life for example) evolved in the context of motion capture and therefore isn’t usable for creating and animating other creatures. The folks at University of Minnesota have developed a more flexible skeletal animation framework suitable for modeling any type of skeleton. Very nice!