A somewhat unstructured rant about current trends in the IT sector, and how we are about to fall face first.
Advertised, now delivered. An interactive Elite style star map with octodecillion stars.So actually quite a bit bigger than was promised. Bonus thoughts included.
Goof around in the biggest maze you'll ever see. This is not an article, but some bonus thoughts are presented for the philo-savy anyway.
In this lightly technical paper, an algorithm is introduced to create procedurally generated Elite syle star maps with quadrillions of stars or more. As a bonus, a mega-maze is also presented.
No Mans Sky was a flop, but maybe not for the reason you think. The core reasons is that procedural generation does not create content for you. You have to.
Celestia picture of the hour
This picture was created with Celestia virtual planetarium. Click to see in full. A new image is generated every hour, the object, the time and the direction is randomly chosen. It is not that simple, but that's the gist of it.
