The Bookmarks
- www.averylaird.com Text Editor: Data Structures
The first step in building my text editor is to implement the core API. If you’re wondering why I want to do this, the original article is here.
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SVG Advent Calendar
svg-tutorial.com SVG Tutorial: Learn how to create SVG images, shapes, animations, and moreExplore the fundamentals of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Learn how to create and manipulate SVG images with JavaScript, animatie them with CSS. Or turn things around and generate graphics from code.
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Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again
www.theregister.com Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon sharpenedRestoration project described in BCS talk is gathering steam
Discussion on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391112
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Coconut Oil Biofuel in the Pacific
> Although copra oil harvesting would provide local jobs, its high labor cost and transport cost would not make it a profitable export. However, for local use in the Pacific, it would do a good job of not only stimulating local copra markets, but also would decrease the dependency and transport costs that come with importing conventional diesel fuel.
- www.dailydot.com Banksy's quote about remixing ads is a remix
After the artist's call to arms for remix culture goes viral on Tumblr, a writer steps forward to note the origin of his ideas.
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Polygonal Map Generation for Games
www-cs-students.stanford.edu Red Blob Games: Polygonal Map Generation for GamesProcedural map generation using a Voronoi grid instead of a square or hexagonal grid
- inconvergent.net inconvergent · Generative art by Anders Hoff
inconvergent is a generative art project by Anders Hoff.
- web.archive.org Generative art with CSS
Translation of Generative art with CSS by Yuanchuan at the 5th CSSConf in China
Another dead link rescued by the web archive.
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Context Free Art: Generative imagery from grammars
Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.
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The Cicada Principle ( for non repeating textures )
or technically just textures with a very large period.
- m.mythcreants.com Crafting Plausible Maps
How to build your world's geography—and no square mountain ranges, please.
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Procedural dungeon generation algorithm
www.gamedeveloper.com Procedural Dungeon Generation AlgorithmThis post explains a technique for generating randomized dungeons that was first described by the developer of Tiny Keep. I'll go over it in a little more detai
This one uses force direction and graph theory
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Dwitter.net: javascript demos in 140 characters or less
A social posting site that runs live javascript demos in the page. Because of the tight character limit for the javascript techniques, a bunch of neat procedural generation techniques are showcased here.
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The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page
Old Old page with tutorials for a number of graphics algorithms physics and procgen algorithms- including bresenham, wulines, subpixel accurate polygon drawing, inverse kinematics, perlin noise and others.
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Interactive maze generation algorithms
Handy for lots of applications in procgen and videogame design
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Wang Tiles - Interactive explanation
Super useful knowledge for tile based game design
- www.theguardian.com ‘Autonomy is so important – to be the engine yourself’: why Yann Tiersen is now touring by sailboat
Creatively frustrated by his association with the Amélie soundtrack and yearning to perform with no environmental impact, the French musician and his wife took to the sea
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Finding Meaning in Christopher Alexander's "The Nature of Order"
archive.org Finding Meaning in "The Nature of Order" : Stefan Lesser : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveA cognitive-scientific perspective on Christopher AlexanderTranscript
Transcript: https://stefanlesser.substack.com/p/finding-meaning-in-the-nature-of
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Offshore Sailing on a Micro-Budget
>If you've ever dreamed of sailing to exotic ports but didn't think you could afford the cost of purchasing and outfitting an offshore sailboat, you may be interested in joining us (David and Pearl) as we outfit Minimus, our venerable little Cape Dory 25, for a year-long voyage to the South Pacific. We intend to set sail from Southern California in February of 2017. Meanwhile, we've uploaded pages describing our somewhat unconventional outfitting techniques. Links to those pages are at the bottom of this page.
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List of Lemmy apps for all Devices
lemmy.world [Megathread] List of lemmy apps - Lemmy.worldDo not ask questions on this thread, as most likely nobody will see it, so you will not get your answer. Instead if you have any questions or need recommendations, make a new post. It is still fine to suggest changes to the list in this thread. # Android * ##### [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/aea...
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A Personal History of Copy and Paste (pdf)
A document by Larry Tesler recounting how he discovered that modal text editing (similar to vi) is very user hostile and created Copy and Paste as an antidote
- nondv.wtf Coding alone vs coding in a team
The excitement of coding just for yourself and by yourself as a professional software engineer
