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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 8h

It definitely captures the feeling, love it

conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wanted to ask, do you have an intuitive understanding for what "shape" of rule set will lead to certain outcomes, or is there a lot of brute force? I was beginning to get a broad understanding of what rule sets would lead to a particular character, but i reckoned you'd now have a solid grasp of it

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I finally had a chance to implement your CA framework last night, which if you remember you explained how it worked to me about a year ago. I had a good wee play around with different rule sets, getting a feel for what each index does.

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you need individual identification for it or can you check the quantity of available resources, build within that limit and reduce the scree accordingly? See photo of an old "shieling" near mine. There are hundreds of them around here, your wee villages remind me of them at the moment

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do they repurpose the stone from old buildings into their new ones?

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh right I assumed it was just some kind of magic

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's just so wild that less than a year ago this was a wee tower defence ascii holiday project

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Holy moly! Send my biggest congratulations to Margaret!

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is like a best hits reel of the last few years

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been tanning hebridean sheepskins this week I thought it was going to be a grim task, but I have absolutely loved the process. It is such a nice material to work with, and such a nice result There is no shortage of sheep on this island, so i think i might have my winter hobby set out for me

Black sheepskin stretched on frame to dry

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I suppose a disadvantage of this more organic method of building rooms and corridors, is you need to somehow define what is a corridor and a room afterwards Certainly it leads to some really interesting shapes that you would be unlikely to build otherwise though

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your use of the third state (in flux) is to me quite interesting, as it is allowing you more variety of results. If you can identify that this is a large room, it could become a real centre piece for the area

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And it looks better for it? I really like this one

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maybes its a bit isotropic and not so "locally interesting" actually, I take it back hah

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Perlin * white noise -> threshold cuts?

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You should add a new render mode: 4-dimensional - it's ascii in 3D, the fourth dimension is imagination

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Currently there isnt a mechanism to bring an entity out of the fleeing behaviour so 2 is cowering in the corner, having been pushed there by 3. If it had spotted 1 while idle, it would pursue 1 until it was found by 3

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A bit of programmer art #roguelikedev-ing. Entities sensing their surroundings and assessing which behavioural pattern to adopt. Here is a "trophic level" simulation where 1<2<3 in the food chain. A game of cat and mouse between 1 and 3 is interrupted when 1 sees 2 and gets spooked

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This post induced some very sudden panic in me, it needed a disclaimer!

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Never seen an elephant bird but this is the last ever great auk. I similarly like to visit it and love that this one exists to see. Crazy, brutal and heartbreaking story if you dont know it These are the original penguins, before penguins got their name

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've heard from some nasa friends that roguefort is being used for some dark matter structure of the universe simulations now. Cant believe how much you have implemented

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Lighthouse Keeper @alighthousekeeper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The northerly wind carries icy cold air from the Arctic. The lighthouse keeper sits by the fire, drying his socks.

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The lighthouse keeper never gets a day off 😅

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You spurred me on to download this a few weeks back. That and frogs are my favourite animal. Took ages to get it compiled on termux but now I have it running on my phone. Still finding my feet but love it so far. Would be great to see more of it from someone who knows what theyre doing 😅

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We raced up thw hill out nasg to try catch a glimpse but either we missed them or our scope isnt as powerful! Next time

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I couldn't say as it's not a spot i visit often, but it had rained a lot before the days I was there, so the water at least wasn't low. The scale is pretty small, that wetland area is ~100m or so across. But it was at the foot of a small coire/glen so I imagine it is scalable in a larger setting

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Previous reply seems to have gotten lost in the ether so apologies if this doubles up I saw this bizarre looking bog/wetland the other day and thought of you and your ca work. It's a river running into a marsh, creating these amazing pools distributed very fluidly curled round eachother

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Really love the lighthouse generator, hadnt come across it before

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Back on the boat tomorrow, as long as I get one or two!

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We got a handful last year but they were sat (for a brief moment) on our window ledge during storm floris and did not survive

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was playing with seeded png mixed with natural sources of noise a while ago. This seems to follow a somewhat similar underlying mixing. What do you see if you distribute numbers from your generator, put through a modulus: rand()%100 I saw a very disheartening repetition

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Could not have got here without you 😁

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

bluesky compression hurts the readability a little..

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I've put together a poster design showing the positions of lighthouses around the Scottish coastline. A handful were omitted for clarity or because they have been deactivated. But the distribution of construction dates I find really interesting. #datavisualisation #scotland #lighthouses #noai

A white on grey-blue map of scotland and the north of ireland. Titled "Scottish Lighthouses". White circles signify locations of the lighthouses around the coastline

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

For an unrelated project, i was trying to find good lighthouse related quotes the other day. Ones from this constantly came up

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thats a hard ask, I feel like my enthusiasm for it fluctuates on a weekly basis

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

By now, in the development of the lighthouse keeper, there are so many possibilities that he can choose to get up to, that i have completely forgotten many of them. It's often a total surprise to me now He seems like a proper living and breathing being now

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is bonkers, seriously impressive stuff tim

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I bet you'd be well surprised if that came up!

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Although the account is a bot, there has been a lot of human imagination gone into the generator. The lighthouse keepers journal continues to expand and improve over time and I love seeing how people react or interact with it. I appreciate your continued support and kind words and lot. Thanks

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conor nally @conornally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

He certainly seems to be playing the mandolin a lot at the moment!

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