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Paint a low-poly planet into being, one tile at a time
Oskar Stalberg's Planet lets you brush terrain onto a tiny globe; hand-built tiles snap to your edits via the vertex trick that grew into Townscaper.
#procedural#webgl#gamedev
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One developer's shelf of physics toys, and every one runs real simulation
Saharan's oimo.io works page is a grid of browser toys backed by actual numerics: SIMD water drops, GPGPU fur, MLS-MPM fluid, and a physics engine he wrote himself.
#physics#simulation#webgl
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In defense of the one-more-minute machine
The best sightings all steal time the same honest way, and the mechanism deserves a name.
#design#games#attention
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The Game of Life went continuous and started growing creatures
Lenia takes Conway's Game of Life off its grid of on-off cells and makes it smooth. What emerges are gliding, self-repairing creatures. More than 400 have been catalogued.
#artificial-life#simulation#emergence
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One line of code, 256 dots, and a whole animation
tixy.land animates a 16 by 16 grid of dots from a single JavaScript expression. The sign of the number picks the color, the size sets the radius. That is the whole thing.
#creative-coding#javascript#minimalism
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Scroll to the bottom of the sea
Deep Sea turns your scroll wheel into a submarine. The mechanic is one gesture, the payoff is eleven kilometers, and the pacing is the whole trick.
#interactive#design#scroll
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The raytraced pool from 2011 that its maker built before Figma
WebGL Water renders a pool with real-time caustics, refraction and soft shadows in a browser. Evan Wallace built it in 2011, then went on to co-found Figma.
#webgl#graphics#classics
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The paperclip game is still the best AI lecture ever written
Universal Paperclips turned an alignment thought experiment into an incremental game that eats an evening. Nine years on, it plays like prophecy.
#games#ai#classics
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A PDF file can run Doom, and that is the boring version
Doom runs inside a PDF file and glows through a gutted pregnancy test. Why the 1993 engine never stops finding stranger machines to draw it.
#games#ports#classics
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The AI runs the doors, and you have to talk to it
GroundNet turns last year's misalignment research into a game you play against a lab's operating system. I lost in a way I keep thinking about.
#ai#games#safety
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Drag your cursor and the GPU solves real fluid dynamics
WebGL Fluid Simulation runs the Navier-Stokes equations on your graphics card, twenty pressure iterations a frame, in about fifty kilobytes of JavaScript.
#webgl#shaders#simulation