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[asper]

Please stop derailing this great and interesting thread.

[Solifuge]

Point.  However I was visualizing 4+ spacial dimensions--at least as far as "space" as discrete cubes.*  I could add 3 dimensions of color on top of that if I needed to.

Dimensions are awesome. So is your brain. Yay.

Please stop derailing this great and interesting thread.

In the long run, I'd really like to see a Pseudo-3D Isometric Visualizer like this one, running parallel to DF to display the map, and act as a third-party Graphical Interface for the game. Maybe once the next version is released, the folks behind 3Dwarf, Khazad, and other Visualizers could get together with the Dwarf Manager/Companion people, and Mike Mayday, to combine the ability to read maps dynamically with the ability to interface with the program, and make the first DF GUI.

An older topic discussing this:

I know that Map Data can be retrieved from Dwarf Fortress, and interpreted (as with the 3Dwarf 3D Fortress Visualizer). Also, as with Macro-Writing Programs, I know that commands can be passed back to Dwarf Fortress program as well.

The idea is to run the program alongside Dwarf Fortress, interpreting the map data as a graphical display, and interpreting user input (including point-and-click input, such as selecting a Workshop from a drop-down menu, and mousing it over to wherever you wanted it built) back into the Dwarf Fortress program.

I imagine it looking something like this:

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[Toady One]

I've moved over this part of the discussion at the request of the OP of the other thread, since it was a severe derail of the original topic.  I know there are a few related posts in here, but they are mostly lost in off-topic chatter.

[Armok]

what other topic? does it mean that we should or shouldn't continue the multidimensional visualization talk here?

[Footkerchief]

Here's the other topic.  You can continue visualization talk here, yes.

[thobal]

I find it quite easy to visualize four dimensions, if you give me enough time.

[Shadetree]

I see what you did there.

[CobaltKobold]

er...so this would be the animation thread then?