The Diamond-Square Algorithm

1 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by diatone

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diatone

9 hours ago

Hey HN, six years ago I submitted a toy to render terrain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660898

Since then I've ended up with a new account, but I still have the underlying Netlify app running. I didn't have the original repo, but these days with AI you can unminify code, so I ended up porting it to Vite and a different state management stack, and then rigorously profiling it so the original comments (eg: about it being able to run instantaneously on a Pentium) are honoured.