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| Date: | 1997-02-12 | ||
| From: | Paul | ||
| Subject: | Alexander |
What continent does a city reside in? Here's one simple solution to the dilemma: Each land spark (or clump) is given an ID. As the world is generated, this ID is propagated to each offspring land cell.
Upsides:
- It's simple.
- It's quick.
- It consumes memory - 1 byte/cell worst case; 1 bit/cell best case.
- This doesn't address the problem of naming oceans.
- Two or more sparks may generate a single continent ("Eurasia"). How confusing will this be?
Paul