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Re: Nightdrive

#111
post #73

Love it. Might be a good thread to ask. A few years ago I found a couple of sites that were like shadertoy but for 2D canvas shit like this. One I think was codegolf.tk (which appears to have disappeared), and I can't for the life of me remember what the other was. Does anyone know of any such sites?

https://www.dwitter.net/ comes to mind

Re: Nightdrive

#112
post #56

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…

Isn't this left hand traffic though? As in, not what you'd find in America? It feels very Swedish to me, except for the traffic direction.

If it's Sweden before 3 September 1967, even the traffic direction is correct...

http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-in-history-swedish-traff...

Re: Nightdrive

#114
post #113

Is it legal to overtake on the right in the US? It's not in the country where I live (NL).

Yes, you'd basically be stuck going well under the speed limit otherwise, because you will 100% always find someone going really slow in the left lane and oblivious to blocking tons of traffic. Even when there's sign after sign saying "Unlawful to use left lane unless passing"

Re: Nightdrive

#115
post #76

So realistic that it hogs the middle lane when it could move to the left ;)

That might be realistic, cf. a female's view of the autobahn:

https://ww3.cad.de/foren/ubb/uploads/NoIdea/perscheid32.jpg

by the late cartoonist Martin Perscheid.

What irritated me a bit instead, where the cars passing on the right side, until I realized that it was made by someone from UK ;-)

Re: Nightdrive

#117

I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone else's work. It's great to see another implementation, with its own techniques and features.

Amazing to see you in comments; your version was inspiration for this project: https://twitter.com/j_miskov/status/1490358867104083972

The video didn't generate much interest so unfortunately I didn't release anything playable.

Re: Nightdrive

#119
post #113

Is it legal to overtake on the right in the US? It's not in the country where I live (NL).

This was made in the UK, so overtaking on the right is the proper way. Note the opposite traffing passing on the right too.

Re: Nightdrive

#120

> "It's hard to classify what it is [...] Maybe it's a "demo"?" Exactly, those are demos, and while I believe it's slightly different there's a whole culture around it that I've never been aware until recently called "demoscene"! I even have a small "Demos" section on my website with a bunch of those, not to the same level of quality though since for me it'd be a bit more like "self-contained small experiments that r…

I would have classified it as a "simulation". Which is what the author calls it, but then tries to find other things to call it too. Simulation is fine.
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