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.
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.
I'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.
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.
This reminds of the Internet, particularly pre-social media, when it was interesting and people had personal sites and weird projects.
The author has a vimeo page (https://vimeo.com/321658453#at=1)
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
I almost forgot you could generate images without neural nets!
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'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'd argue it also engendered a deep awe for Chinese culture in a lot of kids, myself included).
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.
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's there in the one I generated...)
For a senior in college this is incredibly impressive!
Amazing! I wonder if there is any space for performance optimizations to enable the initial scroll rate to continue indefinitely?
the author got many other brilliant repos: https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan https://github.com/LingDong-/qiji-font
The translation of the name is likely:
{Mountain, Water}
Nice project.
It is strange that all the code is in index.html. I was expecting something like mountains.js, trees.js ...
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.)
The author has a lot of interesting projects on his page: https://lingdong.works/ though I haven't checked all of them out (I have no desire to watch anyone's face decay).
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.