Orange Kiwi

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Introduction A little over a year ago, I wrote a post Why I Wrote a Game Rendering Engine (and Why You Probably Shouldn’t).

Introduction This post describes a reasonably performant Prolog to C compiler prototype written in Prolog.

Introduction A little over three years ago, I had an idea - wouldn’t it be fun to have a whole procedurally generated universe on my phone, and have an open game where I can explore parts of it with no combat?

I’ve taken a break from blogging on optimization topics for a bit to get the Galaxy Generator into a releasable state - it is nowhere near feature complete, but the parts that I have done work fairly well.

This blog is focused on software engineering topics of interest to me - mostly software optimization, number representation and compilers.

Introduction I had a problem.

Introduction While building my Galaxy Generator, one of the performance bottlenecks was in the generation of Poisson random variates to determine how many stars should be placed inside a voxel.

Introduction I have been working for some time on a Galaxy Generator project that procedurally generates and allows navigation in a 400 billion star galaxy.

Introduction This post continues documenting the process of optimizing a small problem - generating images of the Mandelbrot Set.

Introduction This post documents the process of optimizing a small problem - generating images of the Mandelbrot Set.

In the News The post Optimization Example Mandelbrot Part 1 briefly made the front page of Hacker News.

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Generate and navigate around a procedurally generated 400 billion star galaxy, on Android, Linux and Windows.

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