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<html><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title>Building on Microworld</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/highlight.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="js/highlight.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="js/page_effects.js"></script><script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script></head><body><div id="header"><h2>Generated by <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/codox">Codox</a></h2><h1><a href="index.html"><span class="project-title"><span class="project-name">The-great-game</span> <span class="project-version">0.1.2-SNAPSHOT</span></span></a></h1></div><div class="sidebar primary"><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Project</span></h3><ul class="index-link"><li class="depth-1 "><a href="index.html"><div class="inner">Index</div></a></li></ul><h3 class="no-link"><span class="inner">Topics</span></h3><ul><li 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<p>In <a href="Settling-a-game-world.html">Settling a Game World</a> I intended that a world should be populated by setting agents - settlers - to explore the map and select places to settle according to particular rules. In the meantime, I’ve built <a href="https://github.com/simon-brooke/mw-ui">MicroWorld</a>, a rule driven cellular automaton which makes a reasonably good job of modelling human settlement. It works, and I now plan to use it, as detailed in this note; but there are issues.</p>
<p>First and foremost, it’s slow, and both processor and memory hungry. That means that at continent scale, a cell of one kilometre square is the minimum size which is really possible, which isn’t small enough to create a settlement map of the density that a game will need. Even with 1 km cells, even on the most powerful machines I have access to, a continent-size map will take many days to run.</p>
<p>Of course it would be possible to do a run at one km scale top identify areas which would support settlement, and then to do a run on a ten metre grid on each of those areas to more precisely plot settlement. That’s an idea which I haven’t yet explored, which might prove fruitful.</p>
<p>Secondly, being a cellular automaton, MicroWorld works on a grid. This means that everything is grid aligned, which is absolutely not what I want! So I think the way to leverage this is to use MicroWorld to establish which kilometre square cells om the grid should be populated (and roughly with what), and then switch to <em>ad hoc</em> code to populate those cells.</p>
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