Aaron Dalton writes: > 1) I realize that koans can be very freeform. By necessity however, an > online implementation would impose some basic restrictions on the types > of koans that could be generated. My current plan is to design a set of > text commands that can be used to auto-generate PNG images of various > pyramid configurations. The restrictions that immediatly come to mind > are the following: > - Pyramids could probably only face up, N, E, S, and W. No leaning =( > - Multiple pyramids would likely need to be arranged in a square > grid-like relationship to one another and not in nice circles or wavy lines. I think you can do better than this-- some of us used POV-Ray to generate koans for the LiveJournal Zendo games, and it's not that difficult to generate some pretty non-boring koans. If you can make a simplified interface to the POV-Ray language (specific to building koans) this might work pretty well. http://community.livejournal.com/zendo/profile http://home.att.net/~kerry_and_ryan/POVRay.html Personally, though, I'd rather see a Gnostica implementation... --dougorleans@xxxxxxxxx