Not magic, just a different kind of science.
On any engineering team, it’s sometimes difficult to agree on best practices. Everyone has different ideas of good style, consistency, etc. But there’s one thing we’ve reached consensus on: enums. Here is what our best practices say an enum definition should look like (keep in mind, this is only for int valued enums): public enum […]
MoreI had a few ideas for C# constructs, so I thought I might as well write them down. Perhaps, some day, someone can tell me why these don’t exist… Making Generics More Generic Several times I’ve been frustrated by the fact that Func<TResult> has a bunch of variants. Wouldn’t it be cool it you could […]
MoreI recently wanted to curry a Func (and variants). Here’s how I ended up doing it: public static Func Curry(this Func fn, TCurried arg) { return () => fn(arg); } public static Func Curry(this Func fn, TCurried arg) { return param => fn(arg, param); } public static Func Curry(this Func fn, TCurried arg) { return […]
MoreUpdate: The source can be found on GitHub. In part one of this thrilling diptych I unveiled my beautiful classic noise function on the world using many many lines of someone else’s code. Well in this post I hope to further bedazzle you by actually using that noise function– and even some of my own code. […]
MoreUpdate: Part II of this post can be found here. Update 2: The source can be found on GitHub. Where to begin? As a previous post pointed out, I’ve been working my way through “Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach” and it’s blowing my dang mind. For instance, did you know that Scorched Earth is […]
MoreIn my previous post, I described a process for generating terrain on a spherical mesh. As the screenshot showed, the algorithm worked pretty well to give you a lumpy looking planet or asteroid. But– what if you want it to look like Earth? Green continents, blue water? You know the Earth I’m talking about. Well here’s […]
MoreIt’s a fact that there are just too many crappy technical resources out there. It’s also a fact that there are probably too many good ones to read in any one lifetime (I’ve still only made it through book one of Euclid’s Elements— and, embarrassingly, I’ve never even started my copy of Principia Mathematica). Anyway, I […]
MoreUpdate: part 2 here. I posted a terrible demo a few weeks ago of a geosphere with some procedural mesh perturbation– then I ran off and never explained it. Then, in my last article, I finally walked through the magic behind geospheres. In this article, I refined my approach to spherical terrain generation and finally […]
MoreUpdate: At long last, the SO answer has been found! Added a link. Lately I’ve been shrinking my goals so that I can actually reach them. I mean, I’d rather have fifty small projects that have all been completed than ten large ones that haven’t (you wouldn’t believe how many things I have 90% completed […]
MoreI don’t have time to write this one up–I will later! But for now, here’s a demo. Hit enter to subdivide the mesh into a more accurate sphere. Hit ‘p’ (repeatedly) to add procedural noise to the mesh. ‘w’ and ‘d’ rotate left and right.
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