Area

Area is the textual MUDding term for a map. An area is a collection of mobs, objects and rooms which are grouped together under a common theme or collection of linked objectives. An area might be a city, or a forest, a mountain range, or other similar discrete environment, distinct from its neighbours. An area can also be the inside of a single building.

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.

3D Texture Alpha Compositing Ambient light Ambient Occlusion Map Animated Pedagogical Agent Area Attenuation Map BAN Bank Sitter Behaviometrics Bilinear Filtering Binary Space Partitioning Binocular Overlap Bio Punk Biopunk Blob Detection Body Area Network Brain Mapping Brain Stimulated Environments Bring Your Own Group BSE BSP Builder BYOG Cache Thrash Central Vision Cognitive Enhancer Context Aware Service CPS Cyber-Physical System Cyberphile Dark Mapping DBS Deep Brain Stimulator Deep TMS Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation DEM Diamond Square Algorithm Differential GPS Digital Elevation Model Dirt Map Dynamic Terrain EGNOS Escorting Experience Treadmill Fat Fingers Fog Map Forward mapping Fractal Landscape FSAA Full Scene Anti-Aliasing Full Screen Bloom Gaze Control Geoprocessing Global Illumination Graphical MUD Grinder Haptic Haptics Hard Shadow HARDI

Heart Rate Variability High Angular Resolution Diffusion weighted MRI HRV IMU Inertial Measurement Unit Infosphere LAAS LIDAR Lifelogger Light Detection and Ranging Linked Constant Light Output Local Area Augmentation Systems Location Based Service Location Based System Lower Extremity Functional Electrical Stimulation MBAN Medical Body Area Network Medical Implant Communication Service MICS Midpoint Displacement Algorithm Minimum Bounding Moire pattern MOST-EEG Motional Input Device Motionless Gesture MSAS Multiple Origin Spatio-Temporal EEG Near Field Communication Neuroimaging Neuromarketing Neuromodulation Neuroprosthetic NFC Occipital Cortex OCT OLC Olfactory Sensor On Line Creation Optical Coherence Tomography Orthographic Projection Overlapping Faces Parametric Surface Patch Parietal Cortex PCG PDR Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Pictorial Format Avionics Pixel shader Portal Precomputed Radiance Transfer Procedual Content Generation PRT Quantified Self R3V Region Rendering Rent Repop Retinotopic Retinotopy

Reverse Painter's Algorithm Robotic Reconnaissance Vehicle Room RRV Satellite-Based Augmentation System SBAS Sensor Fusion Sensor Web Shadow Mapping Shadow Volume Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping SLAM Smart Appliance Smart Appliances Smart Prosthetic Smooth Shadow Soft Body Dynamics Engine Soft Shadow Somatosensory Pathway SSS Subsurface scattering Synthetic Environment Technology tDCS Teleport Telesurgery Thought Transfer TMS Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Translucency Map VBM VHD View Frustum Virtual MIS Virtual Reality Tele-therapy Visible Surface Determination Visual Field Volume Caustics Volumetric Caustics Volumetric Fogging Volumetric Haptic Display Volumetric Shadow Volumetric Smooth-Shadow Voxel-Based Morphometry VR-tele-therapy VSD WAAS Wearable Computer Wearable Device Wide Area Augmentation System Wide area ground Reference Station Wide area Master Station WMS WRS Z-Buffer Z-buffering

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The Difference between FPS and Lag
Participants in modern internet-controlled, heavily graphics-orientated virtual worlds often confuse fps and lag. When an area cluttered with graphics, and a complex drawing area slows down, all too often people say that the area is laggy, or their Internet connection is not sufficient to handle it. This is patiently untrue, and continued perpetuation of this idea leads people to invest in hardware they do not need, which has no effect on the problem.

Developing a Setting for Fantastical IF
This resource, intended for building IF worlds, still has many vital, and infrequently observed lessons for area builders within virtual worlds. A large area within a textual world, is about the same size as an average IF landscape, and many of the same rules still apply.

Local Area Augmentation Systems
A Local area Augmentation System is used to augment Global Positioning Systems when fine, precise detail is required. They could actually solve a lot more sensor web issues than just the use in aeronautics they have today.

Role Playing Extremism?
This is a transcript of a conversation held within an OOC area of one MUD, wherin one player's discussion of RP within the MUD, and the article author's own use of it, reveals some interesting views.

Being There, Now...
Through neural interfaces, it will be ultimately bepossible to record all of a person's senses about the area they are in. That leads to 'being somewhere else, now' in which a user can experience life at a beautiful locale, or historic discovery through the experiences of another - without going there themselves.

Location Location
A short resource that discusses the origins of settlements and other features that a builder should consider when creating a new urban area.

The Dextroscope: Medical Images

The Dextroscope is a holographic display system designed specifically to help surgeons visualize and practice on the area to be operated on, prior to actual surgery.

A Sensor Web of Hearing Aids
At the start of April 2009, a US firm, Oticon, started shipping a rather interesting concept, essentially hearing aids that plug into the local wireless network as you walk around. Whilst this company may be the first, it's a definite interest area for others.

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