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Making Minecraft Spherical

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899 points iamwil | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.601s | source
1. yencabulator ◴[] No.45095309[source]
This made me think of Google's S2. 64-bit ID for every less-than-1cm^2 roughly-square area on Earth's surface, less bits used for bigger areas.

https://s2geometry.io/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hl4KapfAENAOf4gv-pSn...

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2. Tepix ◴[] No.45098641[source]
In the case of Minecraft and similar games, just targeting the surface isn‘t enough.
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3. yencabulator ◴[] No.45098666[source]
The article added a z-coordinate, same thing applies.