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[I3erent]

Hmm will i be able to drop bars into a pit down into a bar stockpile? Seems that would be more efficient than hauling them to a stockpile.  it doesnt have to be  a garbage pit does it?

[Sharpshot]

I am guess that all water will be the same now, either natural or dwarf piped in.
I was planing to put all my garbage in a room, and flood all of it into the river somewhere downstream from my fortress.
Not like I am facing pollution problems... yet.

[TerminatorII]

even now you don't actually need to use an aqueduct. a bridge works just fine.

[I3erent]

Will every mountain have 15 levels up and 15 down? Or will they vary in size like in nature?  Also will the river and magma (if they are present) be on one level or could the be deeper than 1 level? Seems if they were the 3-d viewer thingy would be usefull, id hate to dig a tunnel if i was say 3 levels deep with a 7 level deep river!!!

[Jusal]

I suppose that you can always examine the mountain from all of those heighs. Of course there is a lot smaller amount of stone to work on in the highest parts of the mountain.

And about every moutain not reaching 15 levels under ground? Ehh?

[I3erent]

Well not down i guess lol. Seems by digging DOWN far enough one might hit lava unless it was a volcanoe digging through a mountain would eventually lead me to dig right out the other side methinks!

[Asehujiko]

But how will we handle a round world with square tiles?

[Mechanoid]

It doesn't need to be physically round. Just have the X and Y axis loop. Ta-da! A sphere.

2D environments, bending time and space since the NES.

[Riemann]

Looping the X and Y axis does NOT make a sphere. That is topologicialy equivalent to a torus (doughnut).

In fact there is no homomorphism between a plane and a sphere.

[Fieari]

Toroidal worlds are nice.  Klein Bottle worlds are even more interesting.  Spherical worlds can be vaguely approximated (with distortion) by only looping one axis and not the other (Mercator Projection)

For fun and insanity, you could try Dymaxion mapping, or pick and choose from other projection methods.

[Retro42]

Just got me thinkin......Alternate dimension maps anyone?

[Mechanoid]

quote:Originally posted by Riemann:
Looping the X and Y axis does NOT make a sphere.

Crap, you're right. My bad. I guess in order for it to be a sphere and NOT have a screwed up border on the top /bottom of a X-looped map, it'd have to be narrow at the top /bottom and wide in the center, so as to avoid the distortion. (i think)

[Toady One]

Actually, no matter how narrow etc. you make the top and bottom of a flat piece of paper, you can never wrap it around a sphere without crumpling it a bit.  This has to do with the sphere having positive curvature and the paper having zero curvature.

Nor can you comb the hair of a sphere.

[ April 25, 2007: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[prklts]

We can still enjoy wraparound, though I suppose it isn't quite right to call that a sphere.

[Zaratustra]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
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Nor can you comb the hair of a sphere.
</STRONG>

Well you -can- comb it, but you can't get it all flattened. Plus people will ask questions.