Saturday, February 7, 2026

Derive fourth coordinate from three points of user defined triangle

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick three points to make a triangle

Oops!

Fill up a map rectangle with triangle fans of land and sea.

Find the 10 px quads partially within the circle

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Thursday, February 5, 2026

 So, haven't written...

Been a long week already, gotta work Saturday 

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Finally

Back to finding quads within a circle to make a stupid polyhedron. Project a grid of quads 10 px or a thousand kilometers on a side. The edge quads are bigger, taller. The quads are subdivided into two triangles along and edge between the nearest corners.

Saturday, January 31, 2026

stuff

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Friday, January 30, 2026

There once was a silly old fool...

Who made world maps, of course.

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Mass derived world generation

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Get something done tonight!

Go at the world building in a different way, starting with mass, deriving planetary radius from mass and density.

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Tetra to poor Vinnies 24-sided polyhedron

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick three points to make a triangle

Oops!

I need to write again, and specifically work up settings and scenarios. I can do my version of Traveller with percentiles.

Saturday, January 24, 2026

I'n going to input some coordinates with which to build a world based on an initial triangle from the three vertices the user selects.

I can modify this triangle into a pentagon, and the pentagon into a fan of five triangles, and then build out a ring of triangles in a strip more or less around the equator, then another triangle fan around the other pole of the globe.

I have a page which takes three points from me and draws a triangle. When you click again it subdivides the triangle into a pentagon.

Make a tetrahedron from a triangle

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick three points to make a triangle

Oops!

 They murdered a man on the streets of Minneapolis today. May they rot in hell...

strips of diamonds?

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Make rows of triangle strips.

Oops!

Friday, January 23, 2026

Radius

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Change to an 'exploded' icosahedron.

Oops!

strip it down

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Do something...

Oops!

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The horde emptying the city?
Maps. Need to make some maps...

The simplest thing is to build a icosahedron and subdivide each of twenty triangles.

Or build out around points on a globe mapped to a 2D version of the globe  
Russia murdered some pensioner's in one air attack; they were heading to get their pensions.

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Some code

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Make rows of triangle strips.

Oops!

Monday, January 12, 2026

Fill a canvas with light brown to match the blog background and a 52 by 52 grid of 10 pixel quads.

Use displacement to move the points in the grid around, then subdivide quads into triangle pairs based on closest diagonal corners.
A Carrington Event followed by an AI takeover?

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Friday, January 9, 2026

Thursday, January 8, 2026

Rows of quads

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Make rows of triangle strips.

Oops!

Stuff happens...

Build a grid of quads, subdivide into triangle pairs.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

points to triangles

28 January 2025- Starmap

Just splat out a point

Oops!
To Home?

Pick a point, do some math, draw a point with the coordinates

Monday, January 5, 2026

The technical details

Fill up points and build triangles and daughter quads or triangles.