Alan Zucconi

Tag: fractals

  • Slippy Maps with Unity

    Slippy Maps with Unity

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    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…

  • Fractals 101

    Fractals 101

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

  • Understanding Deep Dreams

    Understanding Deep Dreams

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    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?