Re: [spoon-discuss] Political Robot Grid Tafl

["Glotmorf" <dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Jan 2004 at 17:46, Joel Uckelman wrote:

> Thus spake "Glotmorf":
> > 
> > Shouldn't be necessary.  All you really need is for a table 
> > row to be a grid cell with X and Y coordinates and an index 
> > built on them.
> 
> Right, but a sparse grid works only if finitely many of the cells
> contain something that needs tracking.

If there's an infinite number of cells that need tracking, I'd 
suggest adding a note to the bottom of the webpage and simply 
pretending they're tracked.  And/or a secondary table in which 
one can specify ranges of cells that have certain properties, 
such that if an infinite number of cells with X=3 belong to 
bd, the row might be

|x1|x2|y1|y2|property
|--|--|--|--|----------------------------------
| 3| 3| 0|-1|belongs to bd
|--|--|--|--|----------------------------------

with -1 indicating infinity.

						Glotmorf

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