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Charles Gilman wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 07:54 AM UTC:
It is good to see a virtual single image generator up and running <a href="/play/pbm/diagram-designer.php">here</a>, but I have a few questions. <p> Firstly, is there any way of arranging cells other than in a parallelogram? Some square-cell variants have multiple concavities, generally arranged symmetrically, and most hex variants are arranged on boards that are themselves hexagonals. Can it be domne with a symbol for an absence of cell, perhaps? <p> Still on the subject of hex variants in particular, when I select a hex geometry I get cells of just two colours rather than the three that I would expect - despite there being three colours specified by default. <p> This moves me on to the colours of pieces themselves. Can <i>they</i> be displayed in more than two colouyrs, to represent lrager numbers of players? <p> Finally, can Rivers be shown, and if so are they shown only between two ranks or can more complex arrangements be shown?

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