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| Date: | 1997-03-17 | ||
| From: | Paul | ||
| Subject: | Monday's Last Gasp |
I think I'm through for tonight. One bug surfaced and died since my last message: sparks were always exactly one cell in size, regardless of how the SparkMaximumDimension value was set. Anyway, here are three renderings of the same world. Parameters of the world:
| Size: | 50 x 50 |
| Starting Sparks: | 30 |
| Spark Max Dimension: | 5. Sparks are always rectangular (not necessarily square). Each dimension will be somewhere between 1 and 5. |
| Land Probability: | 70% |
The first view is the standard style I've been sending all day:
[Graphic]
This view identifies each of the starting sparks; it was generated before the growth phase was initiated:
[Graphic]
And this view shows the continent ID of each land cell - pretty interesting, no?
[Graphic]
Note: I start the continent display with the letter A, and increment from there. Since there are more than 26 starting sparks, several continents have weird displays like ']'. Of course this system falls hopelessly apart when you get above ASCII 127 or 255. I'm not sure that you'll want to turn the "continents" file into a fancy map, but it's pretty revealing just to look at the ASCII display.
By the way - I've taken to calling sparks "seeds." Does this sound better or worse to you?
Paul