by cossatot on 6/9/20, 9:40 PM
The author has a lot of interesting projects on his page:
https://lingdong.works/ though I haven't checked all of them out (I have no desire to watch anyone's face decay).
As a geologist, I happen to think that all landscapes are procedurally generated, though it is in general a slower generation process than the computer simulations. Nonetheless I remain fascinated by both the Earth and computational representations of it, and I really enjoy looking at simulations and art depicting landscapes, envisioning what tectonic and erosional processes could have produced the scene.
by zxcvbn4038 on 6/9/20, 9:54 PM
Really awesome! Author has a sense of humor - saw a "Pizza Hut" buried deep in the mountains, see it in the code also. Wish there was some comments in the code.
by dheera on 6/10/20, 12:54 AM
Would be awesome to get this on a wall inside an eInk display and a wooden frame. Kind of like a real watercolor painting but moving very slowly.
by CGamesPlay on 6/10/20, 2:03 AM
I'd love to see if this could be implemented with parallax scrolling. Then it would make a great background for a procedural platformer type game.
by julianeon on 6/10/20, 12:29 AM
That's incredible.
I'm not a guy who gets mad at the inevitable, but I can't help but think the robots are coming for the visual artists and illustrators, fast.
Set your clock because this is 2020, and 2030 will look much different.
by nthnclrk on 6/9/20, 11:27 PM
This reminds of the Internet, particularly pre-social media, when it was interesting and people had personal sites and weird projects.
by tartoran on 6/9/20, 11:54 PM
The author has a vimeo page (
https://vimeo.com/321658453#at=1)
And the first one, the doodle rig caught my attention. One draws a being, a skeleton is inferred and animation is also inferred. That’s pretty cool
by etaioinshrdlu on 6/10/20, 12:24 AM
I almost forgot you could generate images without neural nets!
by somishere on 6/10/20, 12:40 AM
Great project, especially the svg aspect! On a fairly wide aside, it also gave me major nostalgia hit for Tiki Tiki Tembo, a book I haven't thought about since it was read to me as a very young kid .. also apparently a great example of cultural appropriation and reinforced negative stereotypes in print (though I'd argue it also engendered a deep awe for Chinese culture in a lot of kids, myself included).
by eatbitseveryday on 6/9/20, 10:12 PM
This would be pretty sweet if it could encode a few "hidden" objects, like a "Where's Waldo" type of image, but maybe with "Where's Xi" or "Where's the Emperor". Then one could generate a large set of new content which would also be fun to comb through as a game.
by mango7283 on 6/10/20, 12:53 AM
Are those actually high tension power lines in the generated landscapes or are those supposed to represent a pagoda... ( Not sure if always appears but it's there in the one I generated...)
by serjester on 6/9/20, 10:28 PM
For a senior in college this is incredibly impressive!
by heyitsguay on 6/9/20, 11:33 PM
Amazing! I wonder if there is any space for performance optimizations to enable the initial scroll rate to continue indefinitely?
by gaoryrt on 6/11/20, 3:47 AM
by beeforpork on 6/10/20, 6:49 AM
The translation of the name is likely:
{Mountain, Water}
by gus_massa on 6/9/20, 6:38 PM
Nice project.
It is strange that all the code is in index.html. I was expecting something like mountains.js, trees.js ...
It is also strange to see power towers in the drawings. Why did you add them? (I guess there s an interesting story in this detail.)