I decided to put the Poisson disk sampling code here for download since the site that hosted it is down. The code accompanies the tutorial on Dev.Mag: Poisson Disk Sampling. Download poisson_disk_java.zip (184 KB) poisson_disk_python.zip (912 KB) poisson_disk_ruby.zip (59 KB)…
15 Steps to Implement a Neural Net
(Original image by Hljod.Huskona / CC BY-SA 2.0). I used to hate neural nets. Mostly, I realise now, because I struggled to implement them correctly. Texts explaining the working of neural nets focus heavily on the mathematical mechanics, and this is good…
Cellular Automata for Simulation in Games
A cellular automata system is one of the best demonstrations of emergence. If you do not know what cellular automata (CA) is, then you should go download Conway’s Game of Life immediately: Conway’s Game of Life Essentially, CA is a…
About Me
I am Herman Tulleken. I have an honors degree in computer engineering, and I have been making games professionally since 2006, working for Luma Arcade, InnovationLab, I-Imagine and ICE and for many others as a freelancer. You can see a list…
Random Steering – 7 Components for a Toolkit
Random steering is often a useful for simulating interesting steering motion. In this post we look at components that make up a random steering toolkit. These can be combined in various ways to get agents to move in interesting ways.…
Python Image Code
I use this code to illustrate many of the tutorials on this site, and the articles I write for Dev.Mag. Ideally, I would like to package the code so that it is the minimal necessary for the particular tutorial; however,…
5 Tips for Prototyping Slow Algorithms
(Photo by Darren Hester) Some algorithms take a long time to return their results. Whether it is because the algorithm has to operate on a huge data set, or because it has combinatorial complexity; every time you run it you…
Generating Random Numbers with Arbitrary Distributions
For many applications, detailed statistical models are overkill. Instead, we can get away with a rough description of the distribution – not in mathematical formula form, but just as a graph with a few sample points. For example, when trying…
