This week in Soil development, that's my working title by the way, started off hot! After fixing an off by one bug
in my dirt pixel structural integrity weighted averaging kernel, I got to work adding some dynamism to the world by
adding a day night cycle in my sky shader.
Developing a Game About Soil
2025-11-15
My Google Photos is chock-full of footage of moss, mushrooms, flowers, and bugs. Small organisms with
unbelievable complexity and diversity. Just look at the way the moss on this log in the rainforest of Vancouver
Island creates a mosaic of organisms competing for space.
This post is an exploration of emergent complexity, showcasing a WebGPU simulation inspired by Sebastian Lague's Coding Adventure, and his "slime mold" simulation.
At the start of 2024, on the heels of deciding to move across the country, I determined that I needed to ensure that I spent as much time in the company of the people I cared about as I could before leaving. What better way to do this than to set up a recurring weekly event at my apartment. So a natural first step was to develop a website.