Oh wow! I totally forgot about this! I found this gallery years ago. I took a shot at coding the "Substrate" family of images in Processing. It was super fun and the results were beautiful.
Right? My first thought reading the title was "okay sure, the crystals get cold. Then what? Are we going to push the crystals outside so they can warm up again, ready to start the cycle anew?". How is "cold crystals" working better to transfer heat than a gas/liquid?
I get way more use out of Doubly Connected Edge Lists (DCEL) than I ever thought I would when I first learned about them in school.
When I want to render simple stuff to the screen, built-in functions like 'circle' or 'line' work. But for any shapes more complicated than that, I often find that it's useful to work with the data in DCEL form.
Woof! This would have normally been a "buy it blind and play it all day" situation for me. But I'm going to hold off and wait for some more reviews. I want to be careful to put my money towards games that I'll actually enjoy.
Damn, you're totally right. The writing was excellent. It feels like the game lit a fire in the author and they just needed to creatively and comprehensively destroy the game with words.
This was an excellent read. The professor clearly thought a lot about what they wanted their students to get out of investigating the limits of AI use. It seems like it was a well crafted experiment as well as being a well crafted learning experience. Thanks for sharing the link.
Thanks for sharing this. The article was really well written. I'm excited to read more of articles on this blog.