Hi! I'm Amit Patel. I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/Barren Realms Elite and Realm of the Mad God. https://www.redblobgames.com/
I've been trying to write this page since … 2015! Each time I try, get frustrated, quit, start over. But this time I think I might have gotten the page to a good state … www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/...
Red Blob Games: Improving Heuristicswww.redblobgames.comAt 2019's Roguelike Celebration conference @apepers.bsky.social gave a talk about different types of procedural generation practitioners and how they are similar to Dungeons & Dragons magic classes www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYMd...
Alexei Pepers - A Guide to Proc Gen PractitionersYouTube video by Roguelike Celebrationwww.youtube.comThe temperature setting on LLMs makes me think of mind-altering substances: low: coffee medium: beer high: lsd Related: amitp.blogspot.com/2022/05/beer...
Beer mode and coffee modeOver the years I've mentioned to people that I work in two modes: Beer Mode 🍺 I'm relaxed and make connections between many differe...amitp.blogspot.comThis video covers so many of my interests: noise, fractals, hexagons, spherical geometry, map generation, plate tectonics www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL0...
Maps: Fractals, Tectonics and the Fourth DimensionYouTube video by Fractal Philosophywww.youtube.comFor fans of procedurally generated terrain, watch this video erosiv.studio/publications... h/t @jazztap.bsky.social
erosiv - Stochastic Geomorphological Transport for Terrain Erosion Simulationerosiv.studioLove this video! I don't have a perfect system but: - I keep short term stuff on paper - I keep long term stuff on the computer (ideally searchable text files, but I also use Notion occasionally) I don't do a lot of organizing (mindmap, zettlekasten, etc.). My notes are messy.
SalehNew Video on Interface Studies What Every Productivity App Trades Away youtu.be/OuEKdD_1F8s?... As we chase the latest productivity systems, this video takes a step back to examine the fundamental trade-offs built into every productivity app.
Bobbie's interview questions were great — it got me thinking about what I'm working on and what I'd like to be working on
Bobbie ChenToday, it has never been easier to create something, anything. But when given the opportunity, most people never do. So I interviewed four creators I admire, on how they make the exciting, creative, uniquely-personal things they do - and here's the result: digitalseams.com/blog/making-...
One advantage of having web pages instead of academic papers is that I can keep improving them. Today I added drag handles to the cone/sector section of www.redblobgames.com/grids/circle... You can now adjust these visually instead of using the sliders. But the sliders still work too.
Those of you who like to learn algorithms from videos might be interested in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ac... → about a recent result showing better graph search when some edge weights are negative www.youtube.com/@LowerBoundYT → a whole channel about pathfinding algorithms
Lower BoundLearn Pathfinding & Heuristic Search (with Thomas, PhD)
I teach for the Masters of AI at the University of Melbourne (QS #19 in the world) and at Monash University (QS #36) in Australia. I hope to al...www.youtube.com