This is the Forth code to take a map in .bmp format and analyse it for trade routes. Although it has features for fantasy D&D maps, it could be used without referencing them. The core is a Reilly gravitational model
It is invoked by
forth pixelpath map1.bmp 8Where “map1.bmp” is the map to analyse and “8” is the number of pixels per mile (if negative it’s the number of miles per pixel). It assumes that for a map file called xxx.bmp there is a forth source file called xxx.cities which defines demographics for that map (i.e., the towns, locations and their populations).
This code is written for my own Forth compiler. You’ll need to adapt the file handling somewhat and define a loop structure (n times…iterate) which counts down from n-1 to 0. Neither are particularly hard.
The map given here takes 5hrs to analyse using a single thread on a 3.6GHz AMD processor using native code-generation, albeit with few optimisations. Threading is doable but not done.
There is a blog post about this.