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Making Bellwoods, a Generative Art Game in 13 Kb(mattdesl.svbtle.com)
125 points by mattdesl 8y ago|13 comments
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by mattdesl 8y ago
The terrain is bounded by walls (a design decision to keep users from getting too far away from portals) but you can discover new palettes and worlds forever, by continuing to step through unexplored portals.
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by mattdesl 8y ago
Thanks! All of the graphics, colour palettes and sounds are procedurally generated which makes the game small in file size and endless to explore.
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by mattdesl 8y ago
Mostly through experimentation. I ended up with a set of notes that I liked and give enough variety when played semi-randomly, while still keeping with the happy/uplifting mood of the game.
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by mattdesl 8y ago
Glad you caught the reference! I was born in Toronto and Trinity Bellwoods is one of my favourite spots in the summer. The name also has a second meaning with the sound as you noted. I can't take credit, it was @mlissa_h who suggested
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Bellwoods – a Generative Art web game in 13 kilobytes(bellwoods.xyz)
99 points by mattdesl 8y ago|17 comments
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by mattdesl 8y ago
Thank you! This is all in JavaScript with some open source tools I'm building[1]. I write about my process in a few places: often on Twitter, recently in a TinyLetter, and occasionally more in-depth on my blog[2]. I'd suggest Tim
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by mattdesl 8y ago
Nice to see generative art discussed on the frontpage. :) I think the next several years will be really interesting for generative art. Consumers are getting more interested in it, and some of our tools and collective knowledge has really g
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by mattdesl 8y ago
These issues apply to all forms of art. An artist can spend a few minutes splashing paint on a canvas and decide whether or not to call it art. And, depending on the context and audience, it may or may not be perceived as art. I don't
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Show HN: Source Code for JSConfEU WebGL Visuals(github.com)
18 points by mattdesl 8y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 8y ago
I may be misunderstanding your comment, but what exactly is the benefit? Advertising websites can just switch to the new API to achieve autoplay audio, meanwhile all old sites will have a poor user experience as they will require additional
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by mattdesl 8y ago
This is terrible. Chrome responded to a major breaking change by simply... delaying it? The exact same problems will be faced come October.
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New Changes in Chrome 66 Break Audio in Thousands of Websites and Games(bugs.chromium.org)
31 points by mattdesl 8y ago|5 comments
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by mattdesl 9y ago
I don't know Cities: Skylines but I imagine each city rendering engine has its own set of challenges and performance considerations. Generally my point is: graphics programming isn't always trivial, and it takes time/practice
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by mattdesl 9y ago
The geometry in this demo already is static. The app is vertex bound since the geometry has 11 million vertices, which is not trivial for any GPU to render.
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by mattdesl 9y ago
WebGL is great for most use cases, and generally pretty comparable to OpenGL in terms of performance. This vis is rendering ~11 million vertices which is quite a bit for any GPU to render. There are some optimizations that could be made — c
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Developing an Interactive Web Toy in ThreeJS(mattdesl.svbtle.com)
2 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 9y ago
Glad you are enjoying budo! It's a little tool that I built before Webpack became so popular, yet I'm still finding myself using it daily for the last couple years. I'm actually working on some new tools that combines my favo
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Making an interactive web toy in WebGL and WebAudio(mattdesl.svbtle.com)
5 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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Tree-Shaking ThreeJS Applications(github.com)
2 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 9y ago
That article is great. I'm going to add it to the blog post and mention the HP plotter.
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by mattdesl 9y ago
Tried this a few weeks ago to create generative papercraft lamps[1]. Really wonderful addon/script and flexible enough to be used with a pen plotter (ie: for printing the fold lines on thicker and larger paper that your regular printer
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Show HN: Live Reloading WebGL Shaders(github.com)
20 points by mattdesl 9y ago|2 comments
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Live-Editing WebGL Shaders During Development(github.com)
1 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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Stylized Wireframe Rendering in WebGL(mattdesl.github.io)
2 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattdesl 9y ago
> I won't ask that the authors resolve the frame-rate issues, because I suspect it's an inherent issue to the browsers. Stuttering in WebGL is not an inherent issue in browsers. :) To me it seems like something in their code is
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Show HN: Generative data art with Node.js and ThreeJS(behance.net)
6 points by mattdesl 9y ago|0 comments
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Stylized Wireframe Rendering in WebGL(github.com)
1 points by mattdesl 9y ago|1 comments
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by mattdesl 9y ago
Have you tried budo[1]? I am the author, so very obviously biased, but the tool has a small following among some creative developers since it’s really quick and easy to work with. Most of my projects don’t need the scalability of Facebook o
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by mattdesl 9y ago
Are you running Safari?

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