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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7287) Extended Topologies
From: "Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:00:18 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxx

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7287 >

rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think that tiling is the additional operation that Jason is adding into
> his requirements, which is nice but not necessary, and not something
> considered in the original model above.

No, tiling is absolutely necessary to get the spherical effect. 
Otherwise you can cross the equator at South America but you can't do so 
at Africa!

> I suspect that only the square tile shape permits tiling in 2-D as Jason
> would like, and since this is the quincunx model, it is the only one
> that can produce a nice 2-D tiled map. Can anyone confirm this?

As I said before the triangle would also permit it.  But this is useless 
to us.

jason




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