…I finally found it on Google Maps:
Click here to see photos taken during my 2001 trip to Dzongkar Choede.
Author: John Winkelman
Crows in the Morning
A Murder in Heritage Hill
This (and other you can see by clicking the photo) is a small part of a large flock of crows which gathered near the corner of Union and Lyon late this afternoon. This is the first time I have seen crows in this neighborhood.
Procedurally Generated Map With Shading
Click here to load the map. Once it launches, click the movie to activate it, then use the arrow keys to move around. Clicking “reset” will create a new map.
This is a quick update to the tile game experiments of days past. I worked up a better color palette, and figured out a way to include shading to provide a better sense of depth and scale.
Perlin Ants In Color
Click here to launch the ants.
Click the left button to reset the terrain which the ants follow.
Click the right button to show and hide the terrain.
1800 ants in a full-color version of yesterday’s experiment. Instead of looking for dark/light pixels, the ants look at the different color channels of the pixel they land on – red, green and blue. Then the ants follow the same pattern as yesterday – dark pixels turn left, light pixels turn right – based on the intensity of the target color.
Yup. I like how this one turned out, too.
Perlin Ants
Click here to launch the ants.
Click the left square to generate a new terrain map.
Click the right square to show and hide the terrain map.
This is kind of a mash-up between bits and pieces of some previous experiments – the terrain from the tile-based game, and the ants from the Langton’s Ants experiments.
Basically, what is happening here is this: A thousand “ants” are created and placed in random locations on the screen, facing in random directions. Each turn, each ant moves forward one pixel. If the color of the new pixel is lighter than the previous pixel, it turns a bit widdershins. If the new pixel is darker, it turns a bit clockwise.
The ants end up tracing something like contour lines, and seem to be “attracted” to sections where the color of the terrain varies significantly over a small area.
I threw in a bit of a blur to make things more interesting visually.
Enjoy!
Tile Game With Location Detection
Click here to launch the game.
Click anywhere in the prototype to bring it into focus, then use the arrow keys to move. For a detailed explanation of what is going on, read my GameDev.net blog post.
The Lost Lake Trail
Pictures from an afternoon out by the lake at Muskegon State Park. Click the photo to see the rest of the set.
Tile-based Game Engine update
Click here to launch the experiment
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This is a small update to an experiment I have been working on, off and on, over the past several months. Click on the Flash movie to bring it into focus, then use the cursor keys to move around.
Gyruss Play-ability Update
Click the movie to bring the game into focus; LEFT and RIGHT keys to move, SPACE to fire.