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Xavier M. schrieb:

> By the way what is Khyberspace? The page on your web site has been "under 
> construction" for a long time now...

Under construction? Perhaps you mean the particular link "What is 
Khyberspace?", but the homepage in general is reachable via 
www.khyberspace.de !

Yes, it's surely time to finally add a thorough definition of Khyberspace...

Khyberspace is a general term for "virtual Afghanistan", Afghanistan 
(preferably the pre-war country before 1978, but also alternate history 
concepts or even future extrapolation from the current state) as a 
virtual world, either as a "primitive" text-based version like seen in 
Multi User Dungeons (MUDs), a (more or less) photo-realistic 3D world 
(that's where PoV-Ray would be used) or even a realtime-navigable 3D 
world based on VRML/X3D.

Full-blown Khyberspace would be an immense task, since modeling a whole 
country of about 650,000 square kilometres at a reasonable level of 
detail also in "pedestrian" views would take tens of thousands of 
programming years, let alone populating it with credible Afghan 
characters (ideally avatars... er, afghatars played by human users of 
Khyberspace, not just stupid computer-generated creatures).

Three years ago, I started with Kabul (the capital) and its nearer 
surroundings by manually pixeling a high-resolution heightfield from a 
topographical map (attached here some recent renderings and maps - still 
very crude!)... unless I find people to join me, there would be some 
chance to finish at least the city until 2050...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

P. S. Earlier this year, I already had these (and some more) images 
included on my homepage, but unexpectedly, my free PHP webspace account 
on kilu had been terminated by the company, so currently, my attempts at 
Khyberspace are not on public display...

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