Re: world as a globe

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:

[...]
> I think the only way to make this playable is to allow the user to
> view the complete neighbourhood of every tile as well as possible.
> 
> So the starred display is better already; two stars can be displayed
> (one the flip side of the other) to make it even better; but it's
> probably better to make better use of the 2D space available, e.g. by
> doing something like this:
> 
>        1 1 1 1  |  1 1 2

That should be:

         1 1 1 1  | 1 1 1 1
>       1 2 2 2 1 | 1 2 2 2 1
>      1 2 3 3 2 1|1 2 3 3 2 1
>     1 2 3 4 3 2 2 2 3 4 3 2 1
>      1 2 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 2 1
>       1 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 1
>        1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1
>           _/1 2 2 2 1\_
>         _/ 1 2 3 3 2 1 \_
>           1 2 3 4 3 2 1
>            1 2 3 3 2 1
>             1 2 2 2 1
>              1 1 1 1

-- 
Reinier