From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T05:06:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117)

On 3/10/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> I failed to see one impact of where to put the initial freezer so far.
> Now that I have eventually looked at James' movie - great job James,
> really nice - I imagine that it might indeed be a nice thing to start
> the freezing process somewhere else than in the center of the
> *viewscreen* that might nicely show how frost growth extends to the
> other extremity of the viewscreen.

Although, it's been pointed out that the reason it's being modeled as
a torus is to avoid having to have an infinite plane.

If you put the seed near(er) an edge, I think that it just means that
you're going to see some strange frost coming in from the far edge.
This might be avoided if you displayed a portion of the grid through a
clipping window.

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Rick DeNatale

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