Monday, November 12, 2012

New Algorithms

I tried to use a new algorithm for mountain building (prior to this I was using my own invented one) called Midpoint Displacement. Basically what happens is it finds the midpoint of each line segment and creates a new point with a randomized vertical transformation. After several passes of this it creates something like these (the way that I implemented this is quite different from my previous program so I still haven't worked out a good method of display yet so it looks kind of cool/weird):




No Through Road

Hey everybody, check out this grumpy cat!!!














Friday, November 9, 2012

Hey Kid, I'm A Computer

I smashed some rocks together and muddled around with a PNG library for Java and came up with a program that generates pictures of beautiful sunset landscapes. This took several hours. To follow it up I spent several more hours trying to come up with a song to go a long with them. It turned out to be 20 seconds long.


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