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To: Michael Rouse <mrouse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Stewart Adcock <adcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv borders
From: Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:40:43 +0100 
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:36:13AM -0700, Michael Rouse wrote:
> One of the common Freeciv suggestions (in fact, it's on the freeciv.org
> Suggestions/Ideas page) is for national borders, something like what was
> implimented in Alpha Centauri or Civ III. IANAP (I Am Not A Programmer),
> but there is an excellent way to calculate such borders: Voronoi polygons.

        There is already a patch to do just this, at
http://freecivac.sourceforge.net/. I don't think it uses Voronoi polygons,
but perhaps Stewart will elaborate; he knows more about such things than
I do. ;)

        Ben
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