> Serious question: Why is 3D such a hard problem for modern computers? I could imagine a plane enters a cylinder of airspace near the airport and automatically communicates by radio waves information about itself. Then, HAL9000 can provide guidance as a landing plan.

Maybe I'm getting older. Maybe it is a more modern phenomena, enabled by a steady diet of 30 second videos.

Either way, I'm quite disturbed, regularly, recently, by the # of people who breezily stumble through quarter-baked thoughts while speaking dismissively, as if they've covered the surface of a complex universe that has been worked on very many smart people for decades, and now we can get to the real singular problem that'd fix everything, the one thing they've identified.

I don't even know where to begin trying to interlocute when the starting premise is "3D is hard for modern computers."

So I speak straightforwardly, in a way that I wish wouldn't be seen as rude, but it is.

So it goes.

You're right about the arrivals, but you missed the forest for the trees in the comment you're replying to.