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Welcome to the blog! Here you’ll find short stories, technical essays, how-to’s, and aimless philosophical ramblings on all sorts of topics. I find a lot of different things interesting; some, I hope, will interest you too!
Maraud: a Tactical Card Game
This week’s post is a bit of an unusual one. Some friends of mine mentioned in conversation that they want to create a Web-based digital…
Demiurge: the River Forest
Not a river in a forest; a forest of rivers. That makes sense, right? In this post, we’ll cover the first algorithm within Demiurge that…
Concept: Peltier Blanket
It’s finally hot. I planned this post to coincide with the summer’s first hot weather, so I had originally expected to tackle this topic nearly…
Demiurge: Generating River Networks, Part 2
This is going to be, by far, the most technical and least prosaic post I’ve yet written for this site. Following up on the overview…
Short Story: His Eyes Full of Darkness
Note: Maya Legend adapted from Robert Laughlin’s Of Cabbages and Kings. His Eyes Full of Darkness Whose truth do I tell when I speak the…
Demiurge: Generating River Networks, Part 1
In the last Demiurge post, I concluded by noting that the first step of a hydrology-first terrain generation system must be river system generation. Today,…
How-To: Remove Things from Photographs, the Easy and Free Way
That’s not too bad a photograph, is it? I don’t think it’s on par with my typical post-topping photos, which I carefully curate from the…
Demiurge: Geology- Versus Hydrology-First
Geology and hydrology are the two great demiurges of the real world. Geological forces, we believe, war endlessly underground with unfathomable power, their eons-long struggle…
Short Story: Untitled, March 2011
It began, as such things often do, with good intentions: brilliant men with ideals, and ideas that they believed in, and the hope of making…
Demiurge: On Procedural Generation
I avoided the term procedural generation in my first post about Demiurge because I didn’t want to define it. However, since Demiurge itself is most…
+House: Archive
The +House is an “efficient home” concept I’ve been considering for quite a while, though unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to take much action…
Demiurge: Overview
It’s a very good word; I was quite pleased when I learned of it. The idea of demigod whose responsibility is to shape the world…
