In comp.lang.postscript, luser droog <
luser.droog@gmail.com> wrote:
I recently had a group programming project to make a playable card game.
We chose javascript but before we discovered that Unicode has all the
glyphs available, I was imagining designing the cards in PostScript and
then translating to javascript functions working on the canvas.
There's even a playing card back (U+1F0A0).
I thought I could even apply the 4-point transform and make the game
board look 3D.
You could do that for chess (glyphs also in Unicode), or sticking with
cards, a house of cards. Or the card spray at the end of Microsoft
solitare.
But now that I've got some free time, I want to make
a set of glyphs for playing cards. Not too worried about the face cards
yet, but generating the right "domino dots" to place little pictures
of the suit.
That would be useful for other things, like dominos or non-poker playing
cards, consider placing cups for Tarot. Or combine with 3D for poker
dice. (Standard poker die has the three face cards, ace, nine and ten.)
Elijah
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