Over the years, I’ve work on a side project – a C++ OpenGL rendering engine that I use as a staging ground for experiments with procedural generation. One feature I had particularly had fun implementing, was adding heightmap rendering, with a node based graph built ontop of DearImGUI, with a mask painter alongside (the effects…
The recent explosion of deep learning has demonstrated its awesome power, but data driven machine learning isn’t the end of the story. Machine learning is only one piece of the puzzle, in the future it will just be, as Ken has put it, “like a sine function”, could find use everywhere. It will be used…
From time to time, I meander outside my typical work, and pursue a side project, often dealing with some random use of procedural generation techniques. For this one, over the past winter break, I relaxed by seeing if I could generate mushrooms with a few functions, and arrange them in interesting “pseudo” natural looking ways,…