08-05-2020, 02:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2020, 03:29 AM by dale walton.)
In light of our discussion on a connection game on the Cairo board that has connections along edges and vertex-to-cell. A useful featuer for this and similar situations on other boards would be, to coin a word: "Centragonal" connections (an alternative for diagonal connections) with show Centragonal edges option. and <direction> "Centragonal", "EdgeCentragonal" for connectivity options
This is probably difficult and low priority as you now already have many grids that can be used for this purpose for simpler geometries, but it would make defining such a board for Cairo at different scales much easier.
An alternative approach would be to allow defining the connections and diagonals within a unit cell, and generate different order boards by repeating them (ignoring the duplicate connections where the edges coincide)
That is quite generalizable by the designer, and still keeps the work involved minimal. (A single translated board cell graphic can be used for the entire unit cell - which could be based on basic parallelogram arrangements with cut-offs allowed to create for example hex shaped boards)
This is probably difficult and low priority as you now already have many grids that can be used for this purpose for simpler geometries, but it would make defining such a board for Cairo at different scales much easier.
An alternative approach would be to allow defining the connections and diagonals within a unit cell, and generate different order boards by repeating them (ignoring the duplicate connections where the edges coincide)
That is quite generalizable by the designer, and still keeps the work involved minimal. (A single translated board cell graphic can be used for the entire unit cell - which could be based on basic parallelogram arrangements with cut-offs allowed to create for example hex shaped boards)