Today’s post is a follow up to Sunday’s post Procedural Invaders. This time around, we’re going to work through two different space filling algorithms in order to eventually generate something like this:
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Procedural Invaders
Today’s post comes from a long line of ‘inspired by posts’ all pretty much leading back (so far as I can tell) to this post by j.tarbell: invader.procedural from 2003.
The basic idea is that we want to generate ‘invaders’ in the style of space invaders. Except we don’t want 10 or 20, we want tens of thousands. So how do we do it? Well, take a look at this:
Langton's ant
Here’s another post from /r/DailyProgrammer: Advanced Langton’s Ant. I’m a bit behind the times (see tomorrow’s post), but it’s still an interesting enough exercise, so let’s go for it!
Twitter puddle
This one has been sitting in my backlog for a while and its been a while since I’ve gotten to write a programming post1, but now seems as good time as ever: Twitter puzzle
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