7th December 2006, 7:58 PM
That it does.
Lazy, the idea of a pocket dimension is interesting. I'd say the portals are an extension of that. There are other possibilities though. In portal, you have to generate the other side of the portal yourself. Your idea of just sticking a "hole" on something allows for someone to basically make an opening in a wall and break into a place. That's interesting. That would require some special coding of course. Like, take the surface and extend in the dimension perpendicular to the hole until you hit the end of the clipping plane and then create a tunnel, just as an example.
Lazy, the idea of a pocket dimension is interesting. I'd say the portals are an extension of that. There are other possibilities though. In portal, you have to generate the other side of the portal yourself. Your idea of just sticking a "hole" on something allows for someone to basically make an opening in a wall and break into a place. That's interesting. That would require some special coding of course. Like, take the surface and extend in the dimension perpendicular to the hole until you hit the end of the clipping plane and then create a tunnel, just as an example.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)