[MUD-Dev] No Exp? (was: Exploration Exp)

[John Buehler]

J C Lawrence writes:

> Consider:
>
>   Take a coordinate space
>
>   Scatter it with rectilinear volumes.
>
>   Assemble a list of the center points of each one of those cuboids.
>
>   About each center point build a sphere with a radius proportional
>   to the size of the cuboid.
>
>   Plot the intersections of those spheres (voronoi).
>
>   Order that list of intersections.
>
>   Build a directed graph of the intersections, and then string the
>   cuboids back along the graph.
>
>   Fill in the holes where the spherical approximation is just wrong,
>   and apply duct tape and spackle liberally.

I can see that producing a kind of bubble-cluster effect prior to applying
spackle.  I'm not sure I'd want to dink around with the spackling, as that's
the real ugly part.  In any case, I've got something that's accurate and
lets me get caves built.

JB


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