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Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding
Date 2016-09-23 19:31 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com writes:

> On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 2:29:57 PM UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
<snip>
>> I might help if you came up with some criteria for success.  I can see
>> that "rather straight" is bad, as is "expensive", but what measure do
>> you have for a good solution?
>> 
> It's meant for the dungeon generator in my binary image library.
<snip>
> But ultimately the criteria are aesthetic rather than strictly
> mathematical.

In my experience (more than none but not extensive) the aesthetic
effects of algorithms are almost impossible to predict.  Even a small
change in some parameter can alter the effect more horrid to very
pleasing.  I think you'll end up trying lots of alternatives and
tweaking them by hand.

-- 
Ben.

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Tunnelling and pathfinding malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com - 2016-09-20 01:05 -0700
  Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-21 14:29 +0100
    Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com - 2016-09-23 00:43 -0700
      Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-23 19:31 +0100
      Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-28 18:53 +0100
        Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-29 01:00 +0100
          Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-09-30 07:35 +0100
            Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-30 11:50 +0100
              Re: Tunnelling and pathfinding malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com - 2016-10-10 01:55 -0700

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