[MR] OA for O&A (was RE: heraldry)
Craig Levin
clevin at ripco.com
Thu Jun 7 11:31:27 PDT 2001
Colin (?):
> While we're dreaming, I think it would be doable to have a "Paint Your Own
> Device" program, where you pick a field, then (optionally) a division or
> border, paste some charges on and color them, etc. You could disable
> illegal color combinations, e.g., your field is red, so green is not an
> option for your sheep. As you go, the matching blazon grows in a sidebar.
> Then-- and here's the big payoff-- the program makes an Internet query
> against the big O&A database in the sky.
There's _way_ too much ambiguity in blazon for that to work well.
Also, to a great extent, conflict checking is an art that can't
be programmed. Please, please, please look at the links to the
Rules for Submissions, just for starters.
Pedro
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