It’s the holiday season, and what better way to celebrate than to dig out an old project & massively over-complicate decorating? This is a Christmas tree, with addressable LEDs, where I’ve reconstructed all the 3D positions of every LED & am using that to drive a volumetric effect.
Code on Github: https://github.com/evanfletcher42/neural-quines Quines are programs that take no input and output their own source code. Can we do something like that with a neural network? Specifically: Can we train a neural network to output its own weights? We are effectively looking for fixpoints, where f(x, W) = W, such that f is a neural network constructed out of […]
A playable demo of this project can be downloaded here. You’ll need a SteamVR-compatible setup with tracked controllers. The lack of force feedback in VR systems is an interesting limitation when it comes to game design. Many real-world interactions that VR games might like to incorporate only work because your hands don’t always move exactly the way you want them to. Everything from not being able to stick your hand through a table, […]
For a while, I’ve been working on AsteroidsVR, a 3D adaptation of Asteroids for Steam VR & Unity. Right now, it’s mostly me learning about game dev / design for VR games – and trying to make something fun along the way. This is the first in what will most likely be a series of posts talking about the game’s […]
I recently published img2plot, a Python script that generates artistic pen-plotter sketches from arbitrary images. A lot of plotter projects have code for drawing images. Usually they do something with line density and pixel intensities – a semi-random stippling or wave pattern, for example, with smoothly higher density for darker pixels. These can very faithfully represent the image, but they […]