OpenSource security issues aside, it sounds like it would be very cool to play Quake against people who have hacked at the source code (as long as I have, too). The game would be "Who hacks the best Quake client?" rather than a simple shoot-em-up video game. It would certainly offer a new type of challenge.
If you stack four Christmas balls in a pyramid (like cannonballs) you can "see the Chaos" inside them in the form of a fractal basin boundary.
This boundary has the "Wada property" which makes the IR beam spread throughout the room. To demonstrate: (1) take a laser pointer and sight over the top of it to aim the beam at the fractal: the beam will be visible through all of the openings (2) aim so that you miss the fractal pattern but still hit the balls and the beam on exits through only one opening.
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OpenSource security issues aside, it sounds like it would be very cool to play Quake against people who have hacked at the source code (as long as I have, too). The game would be "Who hacks the best Quake client?" rather than a simple shoot-em-up video game. It would certainly offer a new type of challenge.
Dave
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet
If you stack four Christmas balls in a pyramid (like cannonballs) you can "see the Chaos" inside them in the form of a fractal basin boundary.
This boundary has the "Wada property" which makes the IR beam spread throughout the room. To demonstrate: (1) take a laser pointer and sight over the top of it to aim the beam at the fractal: the beam will be visible through all of the openings (2) aim so that you miss the fractal pattern but still hit the balls and the beam on exits through only one opening.
For more see: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/Spheres
Dave