Am not entirely sure if I follow your question but I think SVG can do the sorts of things you describe with JavaScript.
See for example: http://marble.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/hexemb5.html (for some hex-tiling constructed on-the-fly) and http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/tiles.svg (for a way to tile the plane with nondeterministic knot-seqments -- I give my students extra credit if they can make bugs crawl along the knots, or generalize to arbitrarily complex knot segments) You'll need the Adobe plugin for Internet Explorer to make any sense of what I've written here (sorry). cheers, David Dailey ----- Original Message ----- From: "world_shaper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:37 PM Subject: [svg-developers] Building and saving compsite SVG images programatically. > Hey Everyone. > > OK. First off, I am BRAND NEW to SVG development, so I have a lot of > questions and no experience. Heck, three days ago I didn't even know > what SVG was. The more I read about it, though, the more I like it. > I could easily ask a hundred questions here, but I will limit it to > one very broad question I have. > > OK, first some background. I am looking to write a client-side only > web app to generate random maps for gaming. I have a few key features > that I want to try to stick to: > > 1) I want the app to be non-compiled > 2) I want the app to be as open-source as possible. > 3) I want the app to be as platform-independant as possible. > > I think that javascript combined with SVG's rendering capabilities is > perfect for the job(native zooming, scaling, and panning are just a > few features that come to mind). I'm not sure if it is possible to do > what I have in mind, however. Here is what I was thinking: > > Similar to traditional compiled game engines, I want to take small > individual graphic "tiles" and randomly combine them into a large > mosaic that creates the map. Because .jpgs and .bmps have serious > limitations when it comes to level-of-detail and zooming, I thought > that SVGs would be a better choice. > > Because I don't want to load anywhere from 200 to 2000 individual SVG > images at one time, I want to create some sort of quasi LOD system. > To do so, I figure that I need to be able to combine the individual > small tiles and create single composite SVG images for different > levels of detail. Basically, at different levels of zoom, I want the > code to determine which size composite SVG image to render; e.g., at > the most zoomed, it renders individual tiles, at the next threshold > level zooming out, it combines 4 tiles into one SVG image, at the next > threshold level zooming out, it combines 16 tiles into one SVG image, > etc., etc. > > So with all that said, here is what I am wondering: > > Is it possible to programatically generate these composite SVG images > when the map is first generated, then load and unload these images in > the manner I described? If so, where can I get some information on > how to accomplish this. I have experience coding, so I am not asking > for someone else to do the work, but I need some resources to point me > in the right direction. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > -Matt D. > > > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
