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Ken citing, Alain, citing Heather, wrote

>>I think Heather is right about the relevancy of doing what you want to
>>do. How will you manage such an huge resource? I didn't notice up to
>>now that you were loading the entire dictionary with your code.
>
>For testing I used the built-in OS X dictionary. In my final version
>I will use the Moby libraries (more words and more current.)


Umm .. as a slight aside from this it may be worth looking at a couple of
new directions in net based resources. As in, you may not use these these
now, but it may be worth thinking about building in the method to access
them.

I have been in conversation with the NCSA who have a number of
supercomputer clusters each with up to 1200 processors. One project is at
the university of Mississippi, where a real time internet II voice language
translation project is underway. I don't have the URL to hand though.

Something worth looking at, is at the MIT Aesthetics and Computation Group,
<http://acg.media.mit.edu/> , where Matt Grenby has been working on a 3d
Dictionary called Gradus <http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/grenby/gradus> .
(Also a 3D colour picker - Bobbert).

Just a thought ....

Peter