t3hprogrammer
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
String did "virtual graffiti" in 3d in 2011! https://vimeo.com/15935674
When I last explored this idea, "stickers" are necessary since most surfaces in real life are generic "textures", so there's no way to know which section of a wall you're looking at if you're too close to it.
Comment · 10 years ago
I share a similar sentiment with a different phrase: "code is a living history of past ideas, good and bad."
Comment · 10 years ago
Awesome! Replacing one block with another is clever, although it's tricky when organisms of one species are adjacent to organisms of another species.
I've played around with a similar idea in falling sand games [0], where individual cells interact to create new cells, but I got stuck developing a language flexible enough for greater expressiveness while still being performant.
Comment · 11 years ago
I recently wrote about the gap between product-motivated and technically-motivated engineers: https://medium.com/@ericwleong/the-product-technical-spectru...
Certainly startups are interested in hiring engineers motivated by product, but technical interviews obviously don't look for that.
Comment · 11 years ago
One of the "not good" explanations of this was probably mine (and I agree!) written many years ago [1]. I wish I could remember why my code ended up so much more complex.
I tried to embed the "scripting" language as a texture in WebGL to keep the implementation very fast (note that every pixel is a cell), but I think I worked myself into a corner.
Source code here: https://github.com/ericleong/sand.js