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model-synthesis
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City Generation with WFC
WFC is based on my work on Model Synthesis. I consider how to create fully connected (navigable) road networks in my 2011 TVCG paper. Here is an example of a generated road network from that paper.
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Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfc-DQorohc
Craig Reynolds said the name "Boids" was inspired by The Producers Concierge scene, so that's how you should pronounce it:
Boids. Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice ridden Boids. Boids. You get my drift?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6mTMShVyk
The other really cool rabbit hole to explore for generating tiles and even arbitrary graph based content (I'm sold: hexagons are the bestagons!) is "Wave Function Collapse", which doesn't actually have anything to do with quantum mechanics (it just sounds cool), but is actually a kind of constraint solver related to sudoku solvers.
https://escholarship.org/content/qt3rm1w0mn/qt3rm1w0mn_noSpl...
Maxim Gumin's work: https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
Paul Merrell's work:
https://paulmerrell.org/model-synthesis/
https://paulmerrell.org/research/
Oskar Stålberg's work:
https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/784847588893814785
https://oskarstalberg.com/game/wave/wave.html
There's a way to define cellular automata rules by giving examples of the before and after patterns, and WFC is kind of like a statistical constraint solving version of that.
So it's really easy for artists to define rules just by drawing! Not even requiring any visual programming, but you can layer visual programming on top of it.
That's something that Alexander Repenning's "AgentSheets" supported (among other stuff): you could define cellular automata rules by before-and-after examples, wildcards and variables, and attach additional conditions and actions with a visual programming language.
AgentSheets and other cool systems are described in this classic paper: “A Taxonomy of Simulation Software: A work in progress” from Learning Technology Review by Kurt Schmucker at Apple. It covered many of my favorite systems.
http://donhopkins.com/home/documents/taxonomy.pdf
Chaim Gingold wrote a comprehensive "Gadget Background Survey" at HARC, which includes AgentSheets, Alan Kay's favorites: Rockey’s Boots and Robot Odyssey, and Chaim's amazing SimCity Reverse Diagrams and lots of great stuff I’d never seen before:
http://chaim.io/download/Gingold%20(2017)%20Gadget%20(1)%20S...
Chaim Gingold has analyzed the SimCity (classic) code and visually documented how it works, in his beautiful "SimCity Reverse Diagrams":
>SimCity reverse diagrams: Chaim Gingold (2016).
>These reverse diagrams map and translate the rules of a complex simulation program into a form that is more easily digested, embedded, disseminated, and and discussed (Latour 1986).
>The technique is inspired by the game designer Stone Librande’s one page game design documents (Librande 2010). If we merge the reverse diagram with an interactive approach—e.g. Bret Victor’s Nile Visualization (Victor 2013), such diagrams could be used generatively, to describe programs, and interactively, to allow rich introspection and manipulation of software.
>Latour, Bruno (1986). “Visualization and cognition”. In: Knowledge and Society 6 (1986), pp. 1– 40. Librande, Stone (2010). “One-Page Designs”. Game Developers Conference. 2010. Victor, Bret (2013). “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable”. MIT Media Lab, Apr. 4, 2013.
https://lively-web.org/users/Dan/uploads/SimCityReverseDiagr...
Agentsheets: Alexander Repenning (1993–)
Interacting agents are embedded and interact within
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Wave Function Collapse
If we called it Model Synthesis it'd get fewer clicks…
- Wave Function Collapse library in pure C
neocities
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The woman who coined the expression 'Surfing the Internet'
You may really enjoy Neocities [0] it is full if websites that you explore.
[0] https://neocities.org/
- Neocities
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Top 20 Free Static Web Hosting Services in 2024 ⚡️
Thriving creative community. Neocities
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Let's make the indie web easier
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned neocities (https://neocities.org/). It's open source (https://github.com/neocities).
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Neocities – Developers API
Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious
https://pages.cloudflare.com/
https://neocities.org/
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Is it just me, or is the Internet getting really boring?
If you are curious to find more interesting stuff, start here: – https://mojeek.com/ search engine with own index, totally different results - https://wiby.me/ another search engine, but "old school" kind of web sites. It does not mean that site cannot be new, but it just looks and feels like old school web pages. Funny way is use that "surprise me..." link there to find something - https://peelopaalu.neocities.org/ loooooots of interesting and random strange links to dig deeper on internet than just the sugar coated google-friendly web (aka. ad-friendly commercial web) - https://neocities.org/ the web page where is lots of sites hosted as somebody else already shared this as well there on comments - https://koshka.love/links.html Koshka's web page and its links to find more random stuff. There are interesting opinion texts on his site as well.
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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
Neocities has taken steps to try to improve small personal web site discoverability, which ends up being like a platform for people making web sites with a hybrid social component https://neocities.org
I like the idea of calling this the small web, I usually go with something like "personal web site" or "home pages" but it's never quite stuck for me. I hope they've added Neocities to the Kagi small web search because there's some pretty incredible sites available for that: https://neocities.org/browse
- Ask HN: What's your go-to webhost in 2023 for simple websites?
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Drag and drop instant web hosting
Similar to neocities, but novel choice to allow the user to upload file(s) as part of the sign up process.
https://neocities.org
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Website Building/Blogging Tool: Static Ultra (Showoff Saturday)
If you'd like some free web space to try it out, I highly recommend Neocities, which provides static reliable website hosting (should say I don't work for them they just happen to be my web host and have been very good).