Each petal is a room where students and colleague meet for purposes designated by the petal's name. Sometimes the petals are referred to as petals, sometimes as roundtables, sometimes simply as rooms. Those sitting at one table cannot hear what those at another table are saying. This makes an ideal situation for several groups of students to be online in the room at the same time. Bulletin boards and blackboards are availabe for use in these situated rooms.
Roundtable are situated rooms.
When you visit MIR DOM, each facet of the virtual office is fully described in text. The description and your imagination send you into the virtual place. Let me tell you where in virtual reality, MIR DOM exists. VRoOM is the name for Virtual Rooms, Offices, and Meetinghouse at the graduate school. Several faculty have created their vitual offices there, mine is one of them.