PyPlants has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few days (well, evenings), and now from its new home as PyPlants on bitbucket sports a completely rewritten rendering backend which is more modular, should be really easy to plug into, and now supports POV-Ray out of the box.
What’s that you say? A 3-D ray-tracer? …
Every now and then someone at TED presents a technology or an idea that’s so utterly amazing, or ridiculously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT project called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been messing around with computing for 25 years my jaw is …
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fantastic talk on the nature of creative genius. In a room full of scientists, this talk on being possessed by a creative muse, a spirit of genius, raised a standing ovation. This utterly enthralling talk is an …
This video presentation from Siggraph 2007 has been popping up all over the internets the last couple of days, and the implications are truly astonishing. Algorithmically this is a remarkably simple technique, and easily implemented in real-time. It should be pretty straight-forward to write an implementation in ActionScript 3 (for Flash 9) or in IronPython …
Basic premise:
Players in a persistent virtual world inhabit two states — two parallel lives.
When not active in the world, players take on the role of NPCs, their bodies under the control of basic AI routines that go about daily life in any of the towns and villages that scatter the world. The fulfil the roles of …