[MUD-Dev] Virtual Chemistry

[clawrenc at cup.hp.com]

In <Pine.LNX.3.96.970812071341.128B-100000 at mpc.dyn.ml.org>, on
08/12/97 
   at 08:15 AM, Matt Chatterley <root at mpc.dyn.ml.org> said:

>On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 clawrenc at cup.hp.com wrote:

>>    at 03:09 PM, Matt Chatterley <root at mpc.dyn.ml.org> said:
>> 
>> >On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 clawrenc at cup.hp.com wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW I'd strongly recommend using a sparse array and interpolating the
>> missing chunks at runtime.

>Especially if you have a lot of coordinates. I'm probably going to
>set it up so you can leave anything that counts as 'normal'
>undefined, and will be set as 0+/- a small variance for magical flux
>(or somesuch). For instance there is no need to implicitly declare
>neutral Ph, or Nil magical capacitance in a substance.

My first thought was a sparse array where say a particular node might
have value Q, and a node further along the same axis might have a
value R.  The system would then linearly interpolate the node values
between.  Thus only the nodes which marked points of change in
gradient would have to be defined.

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