How a simple apple orchard became a laboratory for emergent behavior When we set out to build a simulation, we had one question: What if virtual characters could actually learn from their experiences? Not scripted learning. Not pre-programmed responses. Real, emergent behavior that surprises even us, the developers. This is
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This article explores a way to mathematically model our inner lives. By using the framework of vector algebra, we can gain a powerful new perspective on how we make decisions, process advice, and evolve through our relationships. Imagine your personality, skills, beliefs, and current circumstances as a single point in
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In a previous post, I created a tool to generate blocky 3D shapes from pure code. For some reason I thought it would be fun to have these voxel based meshes interacting in a physics sandbox as if they were their pure mathematical shapes. As in, the blocky looking "
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Have you ever marveled at the seemingly endless, unique worlds in games like Minecraft or No Man's Sky? Or felt the thrill of a dungeon in Hades that’s different every single time you play? The magic behind these experiences is a powerful concept called Procedural Content Generation
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My goal for this project was to generate 3D models purely from code, without making anything 'by hand' in a traditional modeling tool. I'm drawn to a simplistic, boxy art style; for me it ignites my imagination and inspires creative thinking. To achieve this, voxels provide
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My nephew calls anything pixelated or blocky “minecrafty.” This sparked an idea: could I build a tiny, “minecrafty” voxel renderer, but with lighting and mood that felt a bit different? This post walks through that experiment: what a voxel is in this context, how rays traverse the grid, and how
Hey there. Welcome. By day, I'm a software engineer. I build sensible, well-behaved software that solves problems and (mostly) doesn't catch fire. For a little while, I even did that in the games industry, getting to peek behind the curtain at how the magic is made.
Code, oddities, creativity.