Below is a modular origami construction known as the 120-unit sonobe ball. It has the geometry of an icosidodecahedron but with the 12 pentagonal faces of the icosidodecahedron split into five of the little equilateral…
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Review of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves
I’m the kind of reader of Neal Stephenson who likes Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and Anathem but has never succeeded in plodding through Cryptonomicon (I tried twice!) and who has never even tried to read the Baroque…
Draak Update
Below is gameplay video of a prototype of the puzzle game “Draak” that I am working on. Draak will be an iPad-only iOS game; the prototype below is written to Windows in C# on top…
Beziers in EscherDraw Video
Creating the draak logo in EscherDraw with bezier curves:
My Code for Doing Two Things That Sooner or Later You Will Want to do with Bezier Curves
I just added full cubic bezier curve support to the vector tessellation creation tool I am developing (see here). I’ll include some video at a later date (Update: here) showing this feature in action but first I want…
Untitled Escher Game Update
I’ve decided my “untitled Escher game“, i.e. Zoop on a double logarithmic spiral, is going to be named “Draak”, which is the Dutch word for dragon. The title bears no relation to the game beyond…
An Application for Creating Novel Escher-like Tessellations of the Plane
Over the past several weeks I have been investigating desktop applications for creating novel Escher-like tilings of the plane. Basically I’ve determined that none of what is publicly available is useful to me. The game I have in…
What I am working on…
I’m working on a puzzle game for iPads that takes the mechanics of a somewhat obscure game from the 1990s(*) and puts them on a double logarithmic spiral. The final app will be styled similar…
Discretely Distributed Random Numbers in C#
Random numbers generated from a discrete distribution are a commonly needed thing in game development. By “discrete distribution” we just mean the roll you get from something like an unfair die, e.g. you want a…
Joe’s Internet This Week – 2
Random nuggets that crossed the threshold of my browser recently: The complete text of Feynman’s Lectures on Physics is now online, with a snazzy web ui. Which reminds me, in days before the ubiquitous comprehensive internet…