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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Michael Hohensee:]
:Alternatively, graphics could be sent in the form of ascii code which
:describes how a ray-tracer or other rendering engine on the client side
:is to draw the scene. See my webpage (perpetually unfinished) for an
:example of what could be done.
How big would such a description be? Is it within the range of the 1K
that Caliban gave for the text description?
:It only takes a few seconds for the ray-tracer to draw a good little
:scene from any viewpoint within the world. It wouldn't be a purely
:graphical mud, but it'd give you the consistency you're looking for.
:Incidentally, such a system would quite neatly solve the problem of
:which objects should be shown to a player in a co-ordinate based world
:(just don't reflect light rays which travel more than X units away from
:you).
:
:Heh, maybe we should work on optimizing a ray-tracer. :)
Hasn't that already happened in some games? I'm pretty out of touch in
the rendering field, but I thought most polygon engines essentially did
ray-tracing of one ray for each polygon they draw, so as to get the
proper colour/texture for that polygon.
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00309" HREF="msg00309.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 07:11 GMT
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Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 18:55 GMT
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Michael Hohensee <a href="mailto:michael#sparta,mainstream.net">michael#sparta,mainstream.net</a>, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 22:43 GMT
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Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Sun 25 Jan 1998, 20:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00321" HREF="msg00321.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Mon 26 Jan 1998, 15:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00329" HREF="msg00329.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#zesoi,fer.hr">silovic#zesoi,fer.hr</a>, Tue 27 Jan 1998, 12:27 GMT
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Michael Hohensee <a href="mailto:michael#sparta,mainstream.net">michael#sparta,mainstream.net</a>, Tue 27 Jan 1998, 13:15 GMT
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