This is awesome!! Please keep us posted it will be cool to see your progress. What you are up to is over my head.

As I understand you only have something like 96 sprites so how the heck are you pulling off so many pixel based sprites? Refering to your first picture with your wire frame. Are you using 16x16 squares? How can you draw so many? Are you using taller sprites based on the calculated angle? Ex: 16x16 ranging up to 16x512 - This is magic to me!

I wonder if I'll be able comprehend what you are doing here lol. I love it!