[kde-edu]: Proposal: KWar

Mahfouf Anne-Marie kde-edu@kde.org
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:22:27 +0000


>It yesterday came to my mind that there never really was a time without
>humans battling each other. On the one hand I do believe we have to chance 
>that,
>which I am working on, on the other hand I do believe people should KNOW
>this. People should *visualize* this. How to? THat was my idea: Kwar!
>Kwar is a program which shows a 3D globe with all the countries. While the
>globe spins, time runs past (with configurable speed) and each country in
>which a war takes place flashes for that time. One could now pause the 
>program
>and see some information about that war, like time span, who against who 
>etc.
>The idea was inspired by a Windows program which queries some Nasa server 
>and
>shows the latest earthquakes on a 3D globe. I think it would be quite a
>up-waking program....
>
>Whattya think?
>ciao Marcel

yes, go on and do it.
We can also use that to display some geographical information and so on.
Please keep us posted on your progress.
Cheers,

annma

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