Re: Grid To Hex Conversion

["D. Cooper Stevenson" <cstevens at gencom dot us>]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:59, you wrote:

> I'm not certain which images you mean, but if you mean the JPEGs in
> ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/temporary where I posted the Antarctic files, those are
> from the Helsinki leg of my Summer 2003 vacation in Finland and Sweden.
> The building in np020.jpg (which I'm guessing is the one you mean) is the
> Tuomiokirkko - a Lutheran cathedral in Helsinki.  

Yes, those are they. They are beautiful!

> I have a bunch more 
> photos (from the Swedish part of my trip) that I still have to scan,
> organize, and write captions for, even though it's been more than a year
> now.

They're interesting!


> What do you have in mind?  What I was thinking of was rather than a
> script, to modify the actual image-handling code in XConq more or less as
> discussed on the list several weeks ago.  

Yes. Modifying Xconq to parse whole images seems a cleaner solution than an 
outside script.

> That's going to involve some 
> careful data-structures work, though, and I won't be able to do it until I
> find a nice block of time.  XConq's image handling wasn't really designed
> to handle images bigger than a hex, nor thousands of images, so some
> reorganization will be needed to make it load large images and then cut
> thousands of little chunks out of them, as Eric and I discussed
> doing.  Nothing insurmountable, but it won't be a trivial hack either.

It's worth the wait. That is just incredible.

>
> I was also hoping that we'd have an official CVS again by the time I get a
> chance to work on image mapping, since the current pattern of getting
> updates as source tarballs makes it difficult for me to make modifications
> if my modifications will require more development time than the time
> between tarballs (hard to merge in new updates - that's part of the
> problem CVS is supposed to solve).

I hope we see this happen on SourceForge or Savannah. As you know, others have 
asked for this.

>
> If you're talking external script, then what you have in mind is probably
> something different from what I was envisioning.  Maybe it'd be easier to
> do; so tell me, what do you imagine an "image mapping script" as actually
> doing?  What sort of input would it take and what sort of output would it
> generate?  And if we're going to be discussing technical details, should
> we take this back onto the mailing list?  Feel free to reply to and
> quote this message on the list instead of directly to me, if you wish.

Yeah, I agree that carefully crafting Xcong to handle images natively is the 
best way to go.


-Coop