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Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

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Re: Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

#11

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.

yhea i was also interested to sea how he did the outlining effect. I made something tile this once in OpenGL. But that took a lot of code to create. So yhea magic code with many magic numbers.

Re: Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

#12

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.

https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf/search?q=pizza&un...

Re: Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

#16

This reminds of the Internet, particularly pre-social media, when it was interesting and people had personal sites and weird projects.

Take heart, nthnclrk. That side of the Web is not dead.

There are loads of people out there running wacky personal websites on every subject you can imagine. Mine[1], for instance, holds poetry, Chinese translations, a videogame, and an open call for Star Wars fan art.

If you want the real motherlode, go read Kicks Condor's "Href Hunt." [2] That drongo collects and catalogs people's personal websites, so you've got a whole evening of digital feasting ahead of you.

[1] https://www.maxwelljoslyn.com

[2] https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/

Re: Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

#20

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.

I think this is true for (at least) one reason: robots can iterate a lot faster. Content generation is a human bottleneck.
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