Tag Archives: Spatial
Optical / Spatial / Dimensional Trickery in Games
I’m currently considering a game design that makes use of various optical and logical tricks to fool the player as to how objects in the game are spatially-related – and thought I’d start by doing a bit of a review … Continue reading
Gridding Geometries (or, “Creating patchwork animals in SQL Server”)
This is one of those things that I can’t imagine anybody would ever really want to do but, seeing as I haven’t posted anything for a while, I thought I’d write about it just in case it’s of use to … Continue reading
Rotating Bing Maps
The question of how to “rotate” a Bing Map comes up a surprising number of times on the MSDN Bing Maps forums. The Bing Maps Silverlight Control has a Heading property, which, according to the documentation: “when overridden in a … Continue reading
Creating “The Legend of Zelda” map tiles from Bing Maps aerial imagery
Time for something light-hearted, I feel. Following on from last year’s Bing Maps tribute to Grand Theft Auto, I thought I’d do another videogame-themed map hack inspired by perhaps my most-loved game of all time – the Legend of Zelda. … Continue reading
Alastair Aitchison 