fractals

There are 3 posts tagged fractals (this is page 1 of 1).

Slippy Maps with Unity

A slippy map (sometimes also referred to as tiled web map, tile map, or simply interactive map) is a web-based map that can be zoomed in and out seamlessly. The most popular slippy map you might be familiar with is Google Maps, alongside many others like that.

This tutorial will show you how to create your own web-based slippy map with Unity. Such a technique can be used to create interactive maps for your own games, or to better explore complex phenomena such as fractals or even Mathematical functions. For clarity, the actual map will be created with Unity, but it will be served using a JavaScript library called LeafletJS. A link to download the full Unity package is also available at the end of the article.

The image used in the cover has been generated using Stamen.

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Fractals 101

This new series of tutorials will explain what fractals are, why they are so important and what we can learn from them. This first lesson is a gentle introduction to the concept of iterated fractals and their dimension.

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Since fractals naturally occur in nature, this series will be particularly interesting to all artists and game developers who want to create realistic outdoor environments.

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Understanding Deep Dreams

In the last few months the Internet has been flooded with deep dreams: images augmented by neural networks which look incredibly trippy. Deep dreams have the potential to become the new fractals; beautifully backgrounds everyone knows are related to Maths, but no one knows really how. What are deep dreams, how are they generated and what can they teach us?

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