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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
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On Fri, 24 Apr 98 19:43:30 -0700
Ben Greear<greear#cyberhighway,net> wrote:
> The two big questions are: what kind of data structure should I use
> for in-memory storage, and how to encode this for storage in a
> persistant storage mechanism. I can see advantages of allowing only
> three vertices to protrude from any given node, but perhaps other
> systems are better?
I'd start off by spending a goodly while at the Stony Brook Algorithsm
site. I'm a big fan of data structures representing their functional
requirements. Good resources off the top of the cranium:
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/">http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.PerfectUnison.com.au/GDM/articles/index.html">http://www.PerfectUnison.com.au/GDM/articles/index.html</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.phoaks.com/comp/graphics/algorithms/index.html">http://www.phoaks.com/comp/graphics/algorithms/index.html</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://reality.sgi.com/bspfaq/">http://reality.sgi.com/bspfaq/</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.csh.rit.edu/~pat/misc/3dFaq.html">http://www.csh.rit.edu/~pat/misc/3dFaq.html</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jeffe/compgeom/">http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jeffe/compgeom/</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.io.com/~paulhart/game/">http://www.io.com/~paulhart/game/</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~h2jang/gfx_c.html">http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~h2jang/gfx_c.html</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/~itgwww/3DWorkGroup/">http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/~itgwww/3DWorkGroup/</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.wotsit.demon.co.uk/3dgfx.htm">http://www.wotsit.demon.co.uk/3dgfx.htm</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/SPD/overview.html">http://www.acm.org/tog/resources/SPD/overview.html</A>>
<URL:<A HREF="http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/graphics/">http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/graphics/</A>>
<<As taken from my bookmarks file>>
> There must be some standard way of representing this on disk, does
> anyone have any pointers??
Nope. None at all.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00358" HREF="msg00358.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00675" HREF="msg00675.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: How to represent a 3d object...</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00620" HREF="msg00620.html">[MUD-Dev] (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
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