PlayTechs: Programming for fun

I've isolated the problem to the hard drive. In the meantime I've been doing some thinking about the overall project I've been w...

No post today. My notebook computer is dying. It's a ThinkPad T61 bought last year so I am annoyed. The symptoms so far are that it l...

I sat down to eat in the Seattle airport last Thursday with a guy who unsurprisingly turned out to be a programmer. We talked a bit about G...

This week I did a little bit of work to improve gradient estimation. I start with the binary river/land map: ...and from it infer slope inf...

I got very nearly no programming done this week. And so I present to you a list of things I have seen that are “kist”: Sunkist Rainkist Sno...

Random offsets to streets, and not always connecting a built square to a neighbor: The random offsets have to be unified to ensure that the ...

Here's a visual progress report on random city construction (click for larger versions): I'm still not happy with it but it's co...