[MUD-Dev] Re: Hex-grid mapping

[Nathan F Yospe]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ling wrote:

:As listed in the FAQ, there's a page called Amit's Games Programming Page.
:It has a few pointers in that direction:

:<URL:http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html>

:On an unrelated note, has anyone got any bright ideas on representing a
:sphere with roughly equal shaped tiles?  Whereby tiles can be a hex or
:otherwise.  A requirement is that the solution can be scalable for
:different sized spheres for representing something like a moon and then a
:large planet.

Well... somewhere around here there is a list of the theoretical shapes,
including the perfectly symmetric permutations, for highmass fullerenes.
The C30 is the smallest permutation that is symmetric, the C60 is nicer,
for purposes of approximating a sphere, and there are many larger ones a
person could make a quite detailed sphere out of. I don't even think the
geometries would be hard to code...
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