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Show HN: Minecraft terrain generation on the GPU with JavaCL

8 points by theanzelm 15y ago

pferde 15y ago
Boom, subscribed to the atom feed on your blog. The rainforest screenshots look interesting, I'm curious to see further development. (I only wish I had more free time to "waste" on walking in minecraft's often beautiful landscapes.)
- theanzelm 15y ago
  thanks! I'm still a student so I try to use my luxury of free time as good as possible.
darklajid 15y ago
NoScript: Your _whole site_ is blank. No content whatsoever. It took me a while to actually consider the possibility that there's a problem with JavaScript (or - rather without) and not a slashdot/HN effect, slowing down the server to a crawl. I understand degraded experiences if I turn off Javascript. But a completely empty page is surprisingly bad. -- Edit/follow-up (sorry for the noise): Okay, it's a combination of user error and Google mess. When I went to that link the first time for some reason my NoScript setup allowed everything on blogspot.com. Which bypasses the sites noscript tag and serves me a JS only page, containing nothing but script tags and a stylesheet - from another host, blogblog.com. That was _not_ on my white list. If I _disable_ JS for blogspot.com I get This site requires JavaScript. You can still visit a non-dynamic version of this blog. with a link to http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 So - mea culpa.
- tomjen3 15y ago
  It is 2011. Even googlebot supports javascript now. I wouldn't spend time getting a webapp to work without javascript (a webpage is another matter, as is a cms).
  - darklajid 15y ago
    I'm talking about his blog, right? That's - a webpage. Dynamic content maybe, CMS if you like. It's 2011 and JS is source code that you download from a couple of places on the internet, put in a bowl and execute it in a 'will it blend' kind of style on your machine. In one of a a number of different sandboxes. There are valid reasons for not trusting every random script. Let me turn your response on its head instead: It is 2011. You should be able to either give me ~something~ ('Sorry, you have no JS enabled and I won't give you any content without enabling it first') or, better because it's 2011 and all, have a site that actually shows the (Interesting! Cool! I'll come back to check that author's site again and know that this is a meta discussion here) content.
- donatzsky 15y ago
  I believe this is actually the fault of Blogspot. It seems that Google has decided that doing everything in JS is the way to go.
- ordinary 15y ago
  I have NoScript and get this message: This site requires JavaScript. You can still visit a non-dynamic version of this blog. With a link to: http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 Works perfectly.
- theanzelm 15y ago
  Hi, blogger's new "dynamic views" template that I'm using seems to be powered by js exclusively. Sorry about the inconvenience.

8 points by theanzelm 15y ago

Boom, subscribed to the atom feed on your blog. The rainforest screenshots look interesting, I'm curious to see further development. (I only wish I had more free time to "waste" on walking in minecraft's often beautiful landscapes.)

theanzelm 15y ago
thanks! I'm still a student so I try to use my luxury of free time as good as possible.

darklajid 15y ago

NoScript: Your _whole site_ is blank. No content whatsoever. It took me a while to actually consider the possibility that there's a problem with JavaScript (or - rather without) and not a slashdot/HN effect, slowing down the server to a crawl. I understand degraded experiences if I turn off Javascript. But a completely empty page is surprisingly bad. -- Edit/follow-up (sorry for the noise): Okay, it's a combination of user error and Google mess. When I went to that link the first time for some reason my NoScript setup allowed everything on blogspot.com. Which bypasses the sites noscript tag and serves me a JS only page, containing nothing but script tags and a stylesheet - from another host, blogblog.com. That was _not_ on my white list. If I _disable_ JS for blogspot.com I get This site requires JavaScript. You can still visit a non-dynamic version of this blog. with a link to http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 So - mea culpa.

tomjen3 15y ago
It is 2011. Even googlebot supports javascript now. I wouldn't spend time getting a webapp to work without javascript (a webpage is another matter, as is a cms).
- darklajid 15y ago
  I'm talking about his blog, right? That's - a webpage. Dynamic content maybe, CMS if you like. It's 2011 and JS is source code that you download from a couple of places on the internet, put in a bowl and execute it in a 'will it blend' kind of style on your machine. In one of a a number of different sandboxes. There are valid reasons for not trusting every random script. Let me turn your response on its head instead: It is 2011. You should be able to either give me ~something~ ('Sorry, you have no JS enabled and I won't give you any content without enabling it first') or, better because it's 2011 and all, have a site that actually shows the (Interesting! Cool! I'll come back to check that author's site again and know that this is a meta discussion here) content.
donatzsky 15y ago
I believe this is actually the fault of Blogspot. It seems that Google has decided that doing everything in JS is the way to go.
ordinary 15y ago
I have NoScript and get this message: This site requires JavaScript. You can still visit a non-dynamic version of this blog. With a link to: http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 http://biomesplus.blogspot.com/?v=0 Works perfectly.
theanzelm 15y ago
Hi, blogger's new "dynamic views" template that I'm using seems to be powered by js exclusively. Sorry about the inconvenience.