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> > I'm back to visualzing how to display XCOM-like thin walls in a curses
> > display.  My prior idea (UNICODE, magnify the squares and use box-
> > drawing along the grid lines) only looked good; it isn't playable on a
> > 24x80 console thanks to a pathetic on-screen view radius of 5.  So
> > that won't get released.  ["One main() To Rule Them All" is working
> > out very well emotionally.  Aside from having to convert
> > destroy_renderer() into an atexit handler to make the game survive the
> > Close button, it looks like it is going to work as intended.]

> > My best guess now is to focus on visibility:
> > * use bolded colors for squares in direct view
> > * use faded colors for squares not in direct view
> > * don't bother showing thin-walls directly (they manifest by chopping
> > off visibility).

> > This doesn't handle windows inset into walls gracefully, unlike the
> > UNICODE approach.

> Maybe it's not such a good idea but if you seperate off the right hand 24x24
> squares you could have a 5x5 magnified preview centered around the player on
> the right hand side showing thin walls.