[MUD-Dev] Dynamically changing room descriptions

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad <olag@ifi.uio.no>]

"Jon A. Lambert" wrote:
> Challenge:
> Come up with a method of describing this scene from the vantage point of
> myself, the fly, the giant, the mouse, the gnome, the waitress and the
> cat-burglar.
> 
> Such a method might take into account distance perception, foreground
> to background, elevation, size, and ATTENTION.

Not fully related and I think I've mentioned it before, but in the multiuser
VR community there is a spatial model based on AURAs: a sphere (or something
else) around each object. When two auras intersect they can communicate.

AWARENESS: quantifies interaction between objects
AURA:   when two auras collide they start to negotiate awareness.

FOCUS:  a represenation of the observer's interest in other objects
NIMBUS: a representation of the observed's "attention ability"

There are variations on this though.  Maybe it can be an inspiration.  Other
keywords: DIVE, MASSIVE, MASSIVE-2, Benford, Greenhalgh, Hagsand...

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Ola Fosheim Groestad,Norway      http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~olag/


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