Hi eric,

> You could be a dead millionaire from the stress of
> having to handle all the questions posed by the
> millions of new users. :)

Yeah, that doesn't sound particularly great... :)

At one point in my programming career, I was interested in working on software that would impact millions of people and I went to Microsoft and got a chance to do that.

But there is a tendency to get isolated from the users in that kind of situation, and it actually ends up like you hardly feel you know anything about any of the users. I really wanted to get away from that type of thing with MoI.

- Michael

(MOI) is a very good (3D) software, I recommend it to two friends, trying to study together to master it. They were surprised: "ratio (Rhino) more comfortable, the interface is pretty cute! " try to Translation Studies. I do not know what to say, hey! ^~^!
Want it more perfect and powerful, (MOI)will be very successful software!
Software as simple as possible! (MOI)to meet this standard! ! !

Hi Aramis, yes there's actually a connection between MoI and Rhino since I'm the one that originally created Rhino.

So in various ways I've been able to use my past experience with creating Rhino to make some improvements and better UI design in many areas when I started completely from scratch with MoI.

Rhino has more of an overall focus of being similar to AutoCAD, and that can work really well for people who have spent a lot of time in AutoCAD, they will probably feel at home very quickly.

But for people who have not spent a lot of previous time working with AutoCAD much of the AutoCAD type stuff like a command line interface can be a lot more difficult to learn initially, it's kind of archaic in several ways.

MoI is designed to be more friendly to people who may not have any CAD background at all.

So they are kind of targeted at some fairly different kinds of users - Rhino is more focused on a more technical user. Rhino has a much larger quantity of tools in it, which can definitely be useful, but also the huge number of tools can also add to the overall difficulty for beginning users.

MoI and Rhino can work very well used in combination with one another actually - you can actually do Ctrl+C copy and Ctrl+V paste to move data back and forth between them, and you can do stuff like draw things in MoI and move your data over to Rhino when you need to use some particular specific tool that's in Rhino only right now.

- Michael

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Do you care to casually mention what you worked on for these years??? Only curiosity here.....

Hi Burr,

> Do you care to casually mention what you worked on
> for these years??? Only curiosity here.....

Nothing tremendously exciting - I first worked on a huge project for several years that was then canceled and never released, and then after that I worked on some UI infrastructure and some e-mail tools for the MSN client software (MSN Explorer).

Microsoft doesn't really focus on making software to be used for artistic creation though, and that's one thing that I really missed.

I did learn a whole lot of new stuff while I was there and got to work with a lot of great people, so it was good for me in a lot of ways too, just for the long term it is more fun for me to do my own thing if possible.

- Michael

Thanks.. I'm certainly glad you are doing your own thing!!!! lol

I figured the mshtml host revalation was spawned out of that time period.. Something like an "AHA" moment...

Anyway, was just curious.... :o

Hi 张树栋,

What is paper molding?

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Hi Burr,

> I figured the mshtml host revalation was spawned out of that time period..

Yup, that was when I became accustomed to using mshtml for desktop software UI.

For MoI v3 though I'm shifting away from mshtml and instead to WebKit.

- Michael