zenorogue

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by zenorogue 6y ago
Well, if we see an object with our eye, we know that it is on a particular line. When the brain sees the object with two eyes, it knows that the object is where the two lines cross. As long as they cross in front of the eyes. If they cross
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by zenorogue 6y ago
How much have you played? It seems you need to get used to it -- for me it caused motion sickness initially, but after getting used to it (which did not require much playing in my case), not anymore (except with experimenting with new graph
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by zenorogue 6y ago
There is a free software version of HyperRogue, and also a paid version e.g. from Steam. The Steam version has some minor features that the free version does not have (leaderboards, Strange Challenge, etc.).
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by zenorogue 6y ago
It appears that tunneler is a pixel-based game (not sure whether there is a commonly used term for that, but I mean games like Lemmings or Scorched Earth or Liero or Noita which are grid-based at pixel precision). It is not clear how to mak
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by zenorogue 6y ago
The data storage structure are explained here: http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/dev.php And algorithms for the procedural generation are indeed quite challenging (as you noticed, you cannot just work on all 10^7000
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by zenorogue 6y ago
What do you mean by a tunneller version?
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by zenorogue 6y ago
We have also experimented with using the HyperRogue engine for similar visualizations of hierarchical data, see: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/rogueviz.php
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by zenorogue 6y ago
HyperRogue has 3D modes with real-time rendering and perspective too. (And playable, not just videos ;)
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by zenorogue 6y ago
Unfortunately spherical geometry is often done incorrectly (in Civilization the Earth was a cylinder, in other games planets are tori). What kind of shooter? An Asteroids-like game on hyperbolic manifolds (both 2D and 3D) can be found in Hy
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by zenorogue 6y ago
Usually "non-Euclidean" is used for Riemannian manifolds, so if something is not a Riemannian manifold, it is not called Euclidean or non-Euclidean. Just like "irrational number", which is not any number that is not rati
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by zenorogue 6y ago
Geometry is the curvature of the fabric the space is made of. Topology is how you sew/glue this fabric. You can make a cylinder out of flat paper, so it is an Euclidean manifold. You cannot make a sphere out of flat paper, so it is a n
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by zenorogue 6y ago
Indeed, it seems that Antichamber called itself "non-Euclidean" and people did not know what it means and called all games which did something weird to their spaces got called non-Euclidean. We have lots of cool truly non-Euclidea
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by zenorogue 6y ago
Knossu is cool but not non-Euclidean... It changes topology but its geometry remains Euclidean. Weird connections and non-Euclidean geometry are two very different things.
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by zenorogue 6y ago
It is a great resource for Euclidean hexagons, but non-Euclidean tilings are a different thing. (He does a bit of spherical geometry in his other articles.)
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by zenorogue 6y ago
The first one of these videos is not about non-Euclidean geometry, though. There are many cool 2D and 3D non-Euclidean games already existing and several cool new projects in development, see: https://medium.com/@ZenoRogue&#
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by zenorogue 6y ago
I have written a quite detailed explanation of this here: http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/dev.php
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Bringris, a non-Euclidean falling block game(zenorogue.itch.io)
1 points by zenorogue 6y ago|0 comments
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by zenorogue 7y ago
Here is my blogpost on various weird geometries used in games: https://medium.com/@ZenoRogue/non-euclidean-geometry-and-gam...
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by zenorogue 7y ago
It does. The first version on Steam was $0.99 (it was a tiny game too). Then I think it was $2.99 for some time, then $4.99. The price on itch.io stays at $2.99 because their system does not allow us to increase the price without taking the
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First-person exploration of Thurston geometries(zenorogue.blogspot.com)
1 points by zenorogue 7y ago|0 comments
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by zenorogue 7y ago
Hyperbolic geometry is used in the modelling of social networks and other scale-free networks, see the Hyperbolic Random Graph model.
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by zenorogue 7y ago
I understand not liking Facebook, but they are in Facebook Research (not like working on improving the ads or something), and they publish their research (rather than keeping it for Facebook uses only), and they still do produce new things.
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by zenorogue 7y ago
We did some research a few years ago which was similar in some aspects. We have mapped roguelikes and boardgames into the hyperbolic plane based on the frequency of two games being mentioned together on Reddit. Here are our maps: Roguelikes
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by zenorogue 7y ago
Genius because it should be obvious? Yes, it should be obvious for people familiar with both areas, and it is actually known for quite a long time. Hyperbolic geometry is used for visualizing hierarchical data since Lamping-Rao 1995 and Mun
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by zenorogue 7y ago
(and it is released!)
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by zenorogue 7y ago
It was released in January. Version 11.1 should be released soon, with some new stuff ("more new" than in most updates) :)
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by zenorogue 8y ago
Other Euclid's axioms should still hold in non-Euclidean geometry, but with portals and walls, they do not. Mathematicians who are experts in non-Euclidean geometry would agree that portals do not yield non-Euclidean geometry, e.g. Hen
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by zenorogue 8y ago
For easy computations assume octagonal cells. Their vertices will have 135 degrees each. The edges of the portal will be visible because the left and right images do not match (since 3*135 ≠ 360). And a object (as long as it is modelled as
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by zenorogue 8y ago
The phrase "non-euclidean geometry" does not mean "any geometry that violates the Euclid axioms" but specifically that the parallel postulate is replaced. traki is right.
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by zenorogue 8y ago
But still in development :) Tons of new lands, game modes, and display modes added since then.

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