Posts from 2022

2 posts.

Matching 2D Patterns

Earlier this year, Maxim Gumin released a fascinating new programming language named MarkovJunior. It’s a specialised language which will mainly be useful for procedural content generation, and it has some relatively complex features for that. But the core idea is quite simple: you have a grid with coloured cells, and a MarkovJunior program has rules to transform that grid by replacing patterns with other patterns.

Without Loss of Generality

Here comes another blog about computer science and maths things I’m working on or interested in. I had one before, called The Distributive Law, which was mainly maths, but I haven’t updated it in (checks notes) six years. That’s a long time.