<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM, David Faught <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.faught@gmail.com">dave.faught@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have lately been playing with several simple graphical-logic games,<br>
including a couple of highly addictive versions of Uncross/Untangle:<br>
<a href="http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/games/uncross-the-lines.swf" target="_blank">http://smartboards.typepad.com/smartboard/games/uncross-the-lines.swf</a><br>
<a href="http://www.nonoba.com/chris/untangle" target="_blank">http://www.nonoba.com/chris/untangle</a><br>
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and had the idea that maybe this could be done in 3D.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have you looked at Bloxorz? My son loves it and I wish I had the time to play it. Its already 3d and IMO very cool. </div><div><br>
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As far as manipulating points in 3D and having an OpenGL figure follow<br>
those points, I did this several years ago with MockTurtle in the<br>
Croquet SDK.<br>
But exactly what would this game look like in 3D? I'm thinking that<br>
to keep it simple for an initial try, this would involve intersecting<br>
hinged triangles.<br>
The triangles would be hinged together along common edges, each edge<br>
with a pair of common vertices, where those edges would NOT count as<br>
intersections to be undone. If anything other than the edges<br>
intersects, then something needs to move in order to complete the<br>
figure.<br>
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I started to build this in Panda3D and thought about trying it in a<br>
current Cobalt image, but have now decided that the whole project is<br>
beyond my<br>
available time and effort threshold. So if someone wants to try this,<br>
go right ahead! I may be able to help a little here and there.<br>
<br>
Also, it might be fun and instructive to just build a clone of the 2D<br>
games above in regular Squeak.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Dave<br>
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