World Type A
AUTHOR: Dr. Gerd Döben-Henisch
FIRST DATE: December 28, 1995
DATE of LAST CHANGE: January 9, 1996


A type A world consists of n-many world-compartments (n > 0) which function individually as autonomous processes but share a virtual geometry.

Every world-compartment has the same general internal structure. A world-compartment can be static or dynamic. In the last case it can change it's position relativ to other world-compartments.

The shared virtual geometry is a 3-dimensional space in which every world-compartment occupies a certain region. This space is alled the universe. Every part of the universe is related to exactly one world-compartment.

Every world-compartment 'knows' its boundaries and its neighbours. Thus it is able to decide whether a movable object is leaving its territory or not, and if so, it knows also, who is the neighbour into which the moving object has to be transferred.

Examples of type A worlds:
  • A universe representing 'space' containing different 'planets'
  • A universe representing a 'planet' containing 'continents' connected by water
  • A universe representing an 'island' containing different parts of the island
  • A universe representing a 'city' containing different 'city-parts' or 'houses'
  • A universe representing a 'house' containing different 'floors' or 'rooms' whith 'furnitures' and other objects.
A world-compartment can contain different objects.

Every object owns a sensory envelope. Thus it is qualified with regard to sensory organs. That means every object is connected with values for taste, touch, smell, temperature, moisture, and noise. Besides this has every object a geometrical shape with corresponding colours and/or textures.

The following parameters can be connected to the whole world: humidity, temperature, light, wind_value, wind_direction.

In case of light it will be distinguished the color, the position, the direction, and the energy of the light.

For the geometrical description of our object-types we will use in Phase II of KIP type-files which are using as building blocks BREP representations in the OFF-format of geomview. For the geometrical representation of a whole world we will use WORLD-files.

Comments are welcomed to kip-ml@inm.de
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