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Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting

270 pointsby tomato2juicealmost 5 years ago

16 comments

cossatotalmost 5 years ago
The author has a lot of interesting projects on his page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lingdong.works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lingdong.works&#x2F;</a> though I haven&#x27;t checked all of them out (I have no desire to watch anyone&#x27;s face decay).<p>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.
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zxcvbn4038almost 5 years ago
Really awesome! Author has a sense of humor - saw a &quot;Pizza Hut&quot; buried deep in the mountains, see it in the code also. Wish there was some comments in the code.
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dheeraalmost 5 years ago
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.
CGamesPlayalmost 5 years ago
I&#x27;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.
julianeonalmost 5 years ago
That&#x27;s incredible.<p>I&#x27;m not a guy who gets mad at the inevitable, but I can&#x27;t help but think the robots are coming for the visual artists and illustrators, fast.<p>Set your clock because this is 2020, and 2030 will look much different.
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nthnclrkalmost 5 years ago
This reminds of the Internet, particularly pre-social media, when it was interesting and people had personal sites and weird projects.
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tartoranalmost 5 years ago
The author has a vimeo page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;321658453#at=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;321658453#at=1</a>)<p>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
etaioinshrdlualmost 5 years ago
I almost forgot you could generate images without neural nets!
somisherealmost 5 years ago
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&#x27;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&#x27;d argue it also engendered a deep awe for Chinese culture in a lot of kids, myself included).
eatbitseverydayalmost 5 years ago
This would be pretty sweet if it could encode a few &quot;hidden&quot; objects, like a &quot;Where&#x27;s Waldo&quot; type of image, but maybe with &quot;Where&#x27;s Xi&quot; or &quot;Where&#x27;s the Emperor&quot;. Then one could generate a large set of new content which would also be fun to comb through as a game.
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mango7283almost 5 years ago
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&#x27;s there in the one I generated...)
serjesteralmost 5 years ago
For a senior in college this is incredibly impressive!
heyitsguayalmost 5 years ago
Amazing! I wonder if there is any space for performance optimizations to enable the initial scroll rate to continue indefinitely?
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gaoryrtalmost 5 years ago
the author got many other brilliant repos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wenyan-lang&#x2F;wenyan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wenyan-lang&#x2F;wenyan</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LingDong-&#x2F;qiji-font" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LingDong-&#x2F;qiji-font</a>
beeforporkalmost 5 years ago
The translation of the name is likely:<p>{Mountain, Water}<i>
gus_massaalmost 5 years ago
Nice project.<p>It is strange that all the code is in index.html. I was expecting something like mountains.js, trees.js ...<p>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.)
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