Monday, April 23, 2012

Three Wizards Search The Desert For Gigantic Magic Emerald



Three wizards search the desert for a gigantic magic emerald but what they find is a little more than what they bargained for.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Insomniac

The insomniac sits sleepless
I see him late at night
as I zip by his window
perched on my ten speed bike

I'm heading home from work
while he's already home
all but lost in infomercials
and re-run doctor shows

But for that single moment
peering through his window pane
the tv is the only light
faint flickering on his face

Cut deep into his wrinkles
glisten in his puffy eyes
as I zip by his window
and disappear into the night

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

What is blog

I don't know what a blog is for so I'm just going to put little gizmos and art whatevers that I make on here and see if something resembling coherence germinates.

I made a whatsit that creates a height field by dropping one unit blocks in random places on a flat surface a whole bunch of times. Then I made a function that effectively reduces the contrast of the peaks relative to adjacent spaces. It takes the top block off of a stack of blocks and then pushes it onto a lower adjacent stack. What this produces is something that looks like this:



After this the program exports it into a file that excel can read so I turned it into a graph that looks something like this:



The last thing I did was make the program render out the height map slice by slice so it looks kind of like this:



The array that stores all of the information for the height map has an extra dimension so I can generate pools of water or locations of secret treasure. I tried to do the former and I think my solution for it was good but I did it in a bad way so it didn't work out. I will try again later.

This is what I do in my spare time.