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Southsea, Portsmouth, UK.
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It's 1am and I've just noticed that Last Christmas by Wham has the same chords as I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance. I just need to tell someone but everyone is asleep
Neil Dansey retweeted
City Ruins 🌆 dwitter.net/d/32945 #javascript #tinycode #generativeart
for(c.width=w=99,i=6e3;i--;x.fillStyle=R(z=Z/.7-Y*2,z-Z,Z),x.fillRect(i%w,i/w|0,1,1))for(a=i%w/50-1,Y=Z=b=1-i/4e3,X=t*30;++Z<w&&(Y<6-S(X/9^Z/9)**8*(Z>>5)*33|(X&Y+2&Z)%8)||(a-1?a=b=1:0);Y-=b)X+=a
Neil Dansey retweeted
float j,i,e,v,u,S;vec3 w,p,q;for(q.yz+=.6;p=q+=(FC.rgb/r.y-.5)*e,e=v=3.,p.xz*=rotate2D(t),w=p/e,i++<1e2;e=min(e,(w.x+w.z)/S),o+=.01/exp(e*S))for(j=S=.7;j++<9.;e=min(e,max(length(p.xz=abs(p.xz)-.4),p.y=2.-p.y)/v))w.y-=2.5,S/=u=min(dot(w,w),.5)+.02,w=abs(w)/u-.4,v/=u=dot(p,p),p/=u;
Neil Dansey retweeted
The most minimalist creative coding environment is alive:
⟶ tixy.land
Control the size and color of a 16x16 dot matrix with a single JavaScript function. The input is limited to 32 characters – but no limits to your creativity!
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Neil Dansey retweeted
"Grand Theft Autocomplete is my new favourite term for LLMs."
-- @ben@m.benui.ca on Mastodon
This is huge, such a brilliant game.
It's been over 10 years since we released Rogue Legacy 1, and in the pursuit of sharing knowledge, we are officially releasing the source code to the public.
github.com/flibitijibibo/Rog…
Eternal thanks to @flibitijibibo for setting this up, and being with us since the beginning.
Printed copies are here! Travel the UK using your vocabulary as fuel. Order your free hardcopy of Word Gets Around! (trial version) using this link: forms.gle/6ySPUbhjWvhRQvm18 #gamedev #puzzle #maps #nerd
The biggest depressing-but-empowering lesson I've learned from academia is that everything is always massively more complex than it seems. Even more so when humans are involved. (Social) Media unhelpfully tries to reduce everything to a partisan soundbyte. It is anti-human.
Kids in UK primary schools sing various hymns and grateful god-adjacent songs. Often pedestrian, except for some reason when it comes to Harvest Festival and it's nothing but stone-cold, wall-to-wall bangers. Check this shit out: youtube.com/watch?v=dqpkWsR6…
![Harvest Samba (Cabbages and Greens) [with lyrics for congregations]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2116464993004568577/a_806SsN?format=jpg&name=600x314)
Trial version sent for printing! Not too late to sign up for a free trial copy: forms.gle/6ySPUbhjWvhRQvm18 #gamedev #puzzles #maps
Neil Dansey retweeted
Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes:
🔗lander.bbcelite.com/
