~ Marv.
Dale Mahalko wrote:
I commented on this topic in the SL forums long ago, but it's probably worth mentioning again.While very large sims are potentially useful for realistic full-size flying or sailing simulations, it's also useful to think about the potential of very small sims. One of the most interesting uses for a tiny sim is to build a realistic stadium capable of seating hundreds if not thousands of avatars.Imagine a 256x256 plot, with a single 128x128m sim in the center, and surrounded by a ring of sims 32x32m in size. This arrangement gives you 48 very tiny sims surrounding the one-quarter size center sim:32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 , 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 , 32 32 -- -- -- -- 32 32 , 32 32 -- -- -- -- 32 32 , 128 32 32 -- -- -- -- 32 32 , 32 32 -- -- -- -- 32 32 , 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 , 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32This has the potential to support up to 4800 avatars (assuming 100 per sim, stacked up on multiple tiers of seating) all watching the event in the center region. Since the center is a separate sim with four times the typical CPU available to it, it allows for very high quality performance and team sporting events.The main challenge here is having a big enough network pipe to support getting updates from those 4800 spectators plus the actual events in the center. Assuming just 25 kilobit maximum to update each spectator, that's a potential peak of 120 megabits when everyone stands up together to cheer or wave their pennant, not counting the actual event updates in the center sim.Also, what is the cost per month of operating 49 dedicated sims? But that cost could be offset if the stadium could function as a temporary affair. Other less important residential sims could be temporarily taken offline in order to run this, the "main event". These would be sold as reduced rate islands, with a free pass for island residents attend shows when the home estates are offline during the event.So, tiny sims have just as much future potential usefulness as the very large sims.- Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
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