Category: rendering
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Building Viruscraft planets
The last months have been booked solid with production on various projects, so I’m very behind with blogging. This means that there are a few loose threads that I need to look back on and write about, one of which is the Viruscraft world. This is a screenshot of the current ‘alpha version’ of viruscraft…
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Further attempts at untangling tablet weave
One of the great unknowns following the first weavecoding project was the nature of tablet weave. Other than a few primitive attempts that didn’t work in all cases and lead us to further questions, modelling tablet weave fully was left as an undeciphered mystery. Tablet weave is a complex and particularly ancient form of weaving,…
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Viruscraft: Genetic model connected to a tree visualisation
The genetic model we were working on previously has now been ported into a browser compatible form and connected to a new tree visualisation that displays the species that emerge as the host population adapts to a virus infection. It’s still a prototype with rough edges, but have a play with it here, some example…
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NES/Famicom game programming discoveries
Working on a NES game you are treading in the footsteps of programmers from the 80's, and going back to modern development feels strangely bloated and inefficient in comparison. This is a log of some of the things I've encountered writing game code for the What Remains project. Firstly, although it seemed like a lunatic…
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More PPU coding on the NES/Famicom
After getting sprites working in Lisp on the NES for our “What Remains” project, the next thing to figure out properly is the background tiles. With the sprites you simply have a block of memory you edit at any time, then copy the whole lot to the PPU each frame in one go – the…
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Pixel Quipu
The graphviz visualisations we’ve been using for quipu have quite a few limitations, as they tend to make very large images, and there is limited control over how they are drawn. It would be better to be able to have more of an overview of the data, also rendering the knots in the right positions…
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Procedural weave rendering
We’ve been working on new approaches to 3D rendering ancient weaves, using Alex’s new behavioural language (which describes a weave from the perspective of a single thread) as the description for our modelling. This new approach allows us to build a fabric out of a single geometric shape, where warp and weft are part of…
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3D warp weighted loom simulation
One of the main objectives of the weavecoding project is to provide a simulation of the warp weighted loom to use for demonstrations and exploration of ancient weaving techniques. Beyond the 4 shaft loom dyadic calculator we need to show the actual process of weaving to explain how the structures and patterns emerge. Weaving is…
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Test pattern rendered in threads
Following my own code: (weave-forward 1) (twist 0 2 4 6) (repeat 4 (twist 3) (weave-forward 4) (twist 5) (weave-back 4))
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Evolving butterflies game released!
The Heliconius Butterfly Wing Pattern Evolver game is finished and ready for it’s debut as part of the Butterfly Evolution Exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2014. Read more about the scientific context on the researcher’s website, and click the image above to play the game. The source code is here, it’s the first…