relatively simple. it's a family which uses two neighborhoods.
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relatively simple. it's a family which uses two neighborhoods.
i really like this family of stone rules [flashing light warning, though relatively minor this time]
some promising stone cellular automata. [[2,0,2,2,2],[0,2,2,1,2],[0,1,0,2,1],[1,0,2,2,0],[2,0,2,1,1]]
thank you.
has anyone noticed chrome's CPU usage has spiked when playing video lately? windows.
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late last night i got really into drawing these strange stony, phytoplankton inspired forests. in terms of tiling, this has a lapped scale basis, with spot variants which drop subdivisions + run scales vertically instead of ending them. (tiles gridded, 3 color, but palette painted with no grid)
there are a lot of different types of forests in the world. some of them are comprised of recognizable trees and some are not. and sprite mode is challenging because the places abstraction work are not quite the same as in text mode! it would be worth considering ritualized ways of conveying that.
i got carried away
o no i came up with another approach for trees
yay, i'm glad! hope you like it. if you haven't fermented daikon before, it's worth knowing it gets very savory! you can do a shorter ferment if you want it less funky.
oh and (e & w & n)
wait i forgot (e & w) edge treatment
i dodged a bullet by spontaneously not doing n edges, that diminishes the number of permutations a lot!
this water treatment would be south facing cliff, nw corner, ne corner, e edge treatment, w edge treatment, then two "i'm next to a cliff" ones which go here.. three i guess because of the T case.
gory details, for those who are so inclined
here you go! it's really reliable bsky.app/profile/lore...
this is one i came up with! i actually posted a recipe, lemme find it.
i may do black water with a cool highlight color which doubles as bright cliff face.
i got gravitationally pulled into the tree drawing abyss again. i thought i'd mess with water treatment too. probably this type of griddy cliff water is worth thinking about for situations where water is a barrier. it reads very cleanly.
rye is so good!
seriously it helps me so much to get out and be among living things outside regularly.
at first i thought a grape!
oh i thought it was, iNaturalist has mislead me! interesting, i thought it wasn't at first.
making daikon pickles
rent worms == landlords example sentence: "we have an infestation of rent worms"
i was wrong, it was a virginia creeper
“The men and women who have joined C.D.C. across generations have done so not for prestige or power, but because they believe deeply in the call to service. They deserve an H.H.S. secretary who stands up for health, supports science and has their back. So, too, does our country.”
no they are normal evil gummies
tent caterpillar, perhaps
Little green sweat bee foraging on some goldenrod. (Agapostemon sp.?) #Invertefest
my partner and i are taking macro photos of gummies
what if you usually had some flats next to the track for visibility, but sometimes the hills come close and create reveals? maybe the variety would be nice? i'm not sure what tools you're using but maybe it could be generated around the track to make editing simple?
working on this tileset a little. i'm trying to get the curves softer and the large scale dynamics more continuous (especially in the scale configuration and the internal checkerboard)
haha it is pretty great this way though. glitch pets for velvet worms.
thank you!
thank you! i thought the interiors would work but i really wasn't sure where the front edges would land with this spec.
working on this tileset a little. i'm trying to get the curves softer and the large scale dynamics more continuous (especially in the scale configuration and the internal checkerboard)
the dark right edge, center, really doesn't work haha. there, much better.
oh that sounds so fun! i really want to try something vaguely puppetlike right now too, possibly for this project...
front edge was something else but might become the same (freer, however). there are two fills, one which is used preferentially toward front edges. in interiors, it's in a 50% fill with another fill tile. total tile count 6 (there are variants here)
trying out an idea for a foliage treatment. it gets around the two color limit by using a different palette for front facing edges. lots of interactions here. there are two back edges, one for left corners and one for right corners, which become a scale pattern or 2u frieze (x).
oh interesting! i know there are massive tidal forces in some situations. that makes sense.
i started adding support for effects to the sprite mode. i'm starting with a basic sword slash.
two osseous oozes #screenshotsaturday
looking at these on desktop now: the first still looks very crisp and the second is getting thrashed quite a bit (especially when it moves quickly).
it can really help ground more abstract or nonrealistic elements! they're like a part of a drawing.
i really like that active interpretation and imagination on the part of the audience are part of it! it can make it a very equal relationship, even, if you're after that.
yes, they really do have that in common! i like to think of inviting that kind of engagement as part of the art.
yeah it's weird. and all the stereotypes which hinge on that hurt progressive rural people as much or more than conservatives.
i feel small scale games work has a strange affinity with practical effects work and puppetry. the process of performing with a very deliberately shaped, simplified but expressive character (or door, or stone, or room) is similar.
totally understandable, i lost a plant i loved to mealy bugs! and i am currently trying to save a monstera from scales and afraid it will spread. but yes, when i had mealy bugs i could see their bodies pretty clearly. and they were soft and not gritty, for what it's worth.
cyclopean 'fisher bird'. this is like a cormorant- a winged creature which swims better than it flies. they sit along lakes and pools, watching with single compound eye, and wait for the perfect moment, then dive and catch their aquatic prey.
huh, i've never seen fractal WFC! that sounds interesting.
i like this very shredded version. i'd be curious to compare it to the VHS version this was made from.
the head turn is really good
i bet if it is mealy bugs you got them! and i bet just mild soap didn't do it any harm. it may be salt or minerals or vermiculite. i had mealy bugs and they are not crunchy.
an interesting thing i've thought about but never prototyped: recursive sprites. every block is a 2x2 of blocks. no difference between sprite data and tiles. render consists of walking down the tree up to a stopping depth and drawing those pixels. possibly some blocks are not subdivided further.
did you get a photo? they don't usually move noticeably but it should be possible to tell them apart from salt.
oh that sounds fun! what is the ship doing?
that's an interesting thing to consider formalizing. i do have smaller things planned! smaller things could move across each other etc. more freely perhaps.
i am going to need to do some larger character sprites for some things! the current plan is that horses etc. are 2x2, and some playable characters are larger than one tile too. for instance [holy snails] have a shell one tile across, and their head is in a separate cell.
i actually saw someone doing this with this photo on Twitter yesterday!
Did you know I made a #ProcGen dev Starter Pack early on. If you are interested in people making things procedurally then check it out: bsky.app/starter-pack... Plenty of space for more cool people so if you'd like to be added, let me know! (cursory vetting applies)
in the dark crystal's case, however, they made a lot of changes in this phase. they removed scenes, rewrote the entire script, changed the soundtrack, and rerecorded all the dialogue(!)
i think it's a way to do certain work like the scoring earlier in postproduction. you can see how timing works out etc.
there's basically just academic papers! which is too bad, i think the medial eye is so interesting to people outside those circles. i can send you links to the papers i'm reading if you want but it's pretty slim pickings.
ooh thank you for the reference! i was mostly thinking pinnipeds and cambrian arthropods and pterosaurs and turtles. that broadens it out in a great way. were they flying?
thank you!
haha i really gotta do larger in this sketchbook, the grain of the paper is larger than my usual and it's making work for myself.
what if they had little flippers on the rear limbs, and a reduced tail? maybe smaller than this even, like a seal's tail
yes, it's the (very partial) unicode don't i'm using in the text mode of the game.
no, i haven't! how would you describe it?
thank you! i was trying some new things with those.
it's really awful. it's actively corralling him away from his family and reinforcing his beliefs.
what if they had little flippers on the rear limbs, and a reduced tail? maybe smaller than this even, like a seal's tail
this looks better every time i see it.
aah it's so good
not at all, it's an interesting subject! and yeah they're fabulous! tiny but huge presence haha.
i periodically get excited about how some day, i'm going to do building interiors and then i can use U+2697 alembic
i love the way those look! evidently their eyes were very important because they're huge! i wish i knew what they were doing with those eyes.
i like the connection to craft a lot! it invites you in in a different way from most big budget cgi (which often looks good simply because they spent a ton of money on it and iterated a lot)
this site has some neat info on trilobites specifically. www.trilobites.info/eyes.htm look at the images here of Erbenochile erbeni! how beautiful. a lot of schizochroal eyes were mounted to give a wide field of view.
my favorite reference is this: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
each individual unit (ommatidium) had a calcite(!) lens and likely could focus light fairly well internally. but what do you do with that much data? who knows! i'm not a specialist but i'd hazard you could get good info about things like depth by comparisons across the eye locally.
schizochroal eyes existed once in trilobites and something similar exists in one group of flies. they're a family of compound eyes with fairly separate lenses. i've seen some people conjecture they evolved for good depth perception or dim light.
i'm tentatively planning a clade of things which are related to the [metal eaters], with either holoptic compound eyes (two which meet in the middle) or a single compound eye, probably schizochroal with in-eye depth perception.
thank you!
left, Cambropachycope clarksoni. right, some little scribbly drawings of diving (and maybe flying or gliding?) animals with one compound eye. i'm imagining them in a niche like cormorants- they perch along the edge of the water, and then dive in when they see prey. stronger swimmers than fliers.
me too! i want to know what it's like to sense the solar meridian.
if you break it down into steps you really can explain it in primary school language. light sensitive tissue, slight dimple, pinhole eye, then if you wanna get fancy a lens etc.
yeah it's interesting how the eye is classically used as an argument for design! but evolutionarily eyes are wonderful but actually pretty quick to evolve.
i've been studying the evolution of eyes and it's really wonderful and strange. it's absolutely a rabbit hole straight into the arcane heart of embodied existence. i'm currently very into things with odd numbers of eyes. Cambropachycopidae. reptiles with pineal eyes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrop...
it's... professedly a fairly highly compressed digital transfer of a very old VHS of a black and white work print (which i think would have been film, not video?)
i feel like lo fi games which lean into prompting the imagination have a lot in common with the work print.
it's really wonderful! i got very excited about the artifacts and timing of glitches multiple times (also it's very worth watching a good quality transfer so you can see what they did with the textures + puppetry + sets + costumes, it's really astonishing).