#tinyisles

[itscaptainyoulittlemaggot]

@tinyisles I could but I’ve already used up one of my three stints of sick days. And I get sick a lot so I’d rather save them. But I’m still going to the interview, because I’m fairly confident I’ll have got this job.

[sgtbbvrnes]

"just like icarus" -- and all your other fics -- are so beautiful and poetic and wow your words are just so amazing, i want them tattooed on me

WEW that’d be a lot of tattoos your whole body would be covered w words it’d be like prison break except not a map and just fics 

[serzhantkris]

tinyisles replied to your post: Enoument is one of my top stories and ch 4 is one...

Boyfriend kinda deserves it. He’s def behaving crueler than she is. People digest grief different but she’s done nothing???? I’m stanning her hahaha

Oh yeah, I agree, he’s definitely not handling it well. Ignoring the problem and using other women as an outlet is the absolute wrong way to go about it. No one ever said Bucky was perfect though. Reader might be better at dealing with grief, but she’s also never had to deal with as much shit in life that Bucky has. All in all, they both really got screwed over in different ways.

[imhereforbvcky]

Tag Game #2

👑 Tagged by: @plums-and-peaches​ hello, new friend!

👑 Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to know better

👑Top 10 songs I can’t stop listening to:

A Little Wicked (Valerie Broussard)

Same Drugs (Chance the Rapper)

Pretty Shiny Things (Kassi Ashton)

What You’ve Put Me Through (Hank Compton)

When The Party’s Over (Lewis Capaldi cover)

Dynamite (Sigrid)

CountryTime (Blanco Brown)

Shotgun (George Ezra)

Tempo (Lizzo & Missy Elliot)

Zombie (Bad Wolves cover)

👑Favorite color(s): lavender & pine tree green

👑Favorite ship(s): Disney cruise ship 

👑Lipstick or chapstick: I live in an alpine dessert, I need chapstick to live.

👑Last movie: The Iron Lady. (I love Meryl Streep, okay!)

👑Currently reading: Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin (actually not bad for a book club pick if you like murder mysteries)

👑Tagging: Imma tag the first 9 people in my notifications... @randomfandoms-fan @wehaveabuck @deadpoolxandxfriends @yeomanrand @youre-not-my-real-mom @tinyisles @avengerofyourheart @captainbuckyjamesbarnes @caddylove

[procedural-generation]

Tiny Isles

I have a vested interest in island generators, so I was already interested in the Tiny Isles Twitter bot by Paul Newton and Chris Beard.

But then one of them someone sent me a link to a write-up of the development process of making a similar island generator, and the one thing I like better than talking about a procedural generator is talking about how it works and the process the developers went through to put it together.

It’s a peek at the drama of making a generator, which feels very familiar to me. I especially like that it doesn’t shy away from describing the frustrations and dead ends along the way. These are a part of every generative project, but they usually get glossed over. I think it’s important to sometimes acknowledge them, especially for people who are just starting out and don’t realize how normal it is to run into frustrations like that.

The generator itself is quite interesting: though small, the eventual result is a simple but effective application of noise and shading to create convincing-looking relief maps of tropical islands.

https://twitter.com/tinyisles

https://plaxdev.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/procedurally-generating-islands/

Correction: I have been informed that the blogpost is not by the same creators as the Tiny Isles bot, though they look quite similar at first glance. Now I’m going to have to compare the actual code they used as a starting point with this blogpost and see how the results differ. 

This generator, island.js by "lebesnec“ is inspired by, not surprisingly, Amit Patel’s Voronoi-based terrain generator. That accounts for the differences that at first glance I attributed to being further along in the development cycle, because I didn’t check the dates closely enough.

The Lebesnec generator uses the Voronoi cells to quantize the map into small regions that it can then reason about. Like in Patel’s version, it actually draws the coastline before it invents the elevation.

The Plaxorite generator, in contrast, starts with a gradient heightmap, which is a bit more usual as a bottom-up approach--but note that the Lebesnec’s generator is also bottom up, just with a different data structure.

The Lebesnec generator has more features: most obviously, lakes and rivers. This can partially be attributed to being further along in development, building on Patel’s work, but it also takes advantage of the cell-based nature of the data: by having that cell graph, the generator can operate on conceptual chunks of the land, not just individual pixels.

Plaxorite will have to come up with a different approach to generating rivers, if they want to add it. This generator reasons about things on the level of continuous values (the gradient) and as a fixed grid of pixels (the rendered result). You could introduce the rivers at either stage, but the approach used and the result you’d get would be different depending on which way you went.

At least this mixup on my part was useful to illustrate some things: for example, there are many different approaches to the same goal. But different approaches will also affect the outcomes. They have different bone structures, even if they look superficially similar on the surface.

There are lots of ways to invent island shapes, and which one you choose affects both aesthetics and results, though sometimes in subtle ways.

[mangosoldier]

@tinyisles replied to your post “Are We There Yet (Steve/Sam/Bucky x Reader) (Part 7)”

holyyyyy shit this is perfect. slow build and the slight tone/genre shift is so well written

What a kind compliment! Thank you so so much! <3

[itscaptainyoulittlemaggot]

@tinyisles replied to your post “@tinyisles replied to your post “@tinyisles replied to your post...”

The line about telling stories versus just jokes is SO true too

That part really resonated with me. Especially being more honest with strangers than the people closest to you. 

[serzhantkris]

Enoument is one of my top stories and ch 4 is one of my favorites of all time. "You must have died" and "He tastes like coffee and mistakes, and you kiss him back because you know this is one of them. The last mistake you’ll ever make with him, and you aren’t willing to let it go." Wow so beautifully written. I am deceased. And when he leaves her after that fuck, it's so goddamn heart breaking. Like pls be my writing teacher

Thank you so much, darling! I appreciate this a ton. Chapter four is also one of my favorites too. I feel so bad for these poor guys, yeesh. Will I ever just let Bucky be happy?

.... Probably not.

[kidvirgo]

tinyisles replied to your post:arcade fire! you?

yes!!! aww :( i heard they were expensive, too???

!!! im happy for you! they were like 70 on ticketmaster but then i checked stubhub and it was so ridiculous 

[futureviking-blog]

tinyisles replied to your post “there's something called fall out boy #thoughtyoushouldknow”

OH MY GOD I MEANT FALL OUT BIRD

HAAAAAHAHAHAHA ohhhhhhhkay I get it now. I need to get that game!!

[itscaptainyoulittlemaggot]

@tinyisles replied to your post “@tinyisles replied to your post “@tinyisles replied to your post...”

http://33.media.tumblr.com/87d9f22bbff78b764d996a56c26399f6/tumblr_nbhjcmY0lA1s2791bo7_r1_250.gif

What if all of the Avengers suffered equally, but like, Steve and Bucky suffered a bit less?

[serzhantkris]

SO BEAUTIFUL. I am sobbing. I loved that it came full circle and the repetition of five minutes/one dance between them. Everything was so romantic and gorgeous. Love love love it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you love!! :)

[cezura]

thanx girl. by the way, if you're staying near the west side or santa monica, i suggest you stop by sweet rose creamery (it's on 26 street, at the brentwood country mart). it's a bit pricey, but it's the best and the freshest ice cream (and the cones are kind of warm)

ah thanks! that sounds like heaven. i'm out of the country at the moment, but maybe i'll see if i can stop by on the way back! :)

[kidvirgo]

arcade fire! you?

ah did you get them?? lmao no i was trying to get some for lana del rey lmao but i have failed

[futureviking-blog]

there's something called fall out boy #thoughtyoushouldknow

Wow. Are they like, a local bad or something?