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Normally a tile map displays spaces which can be defined in finite terms using a piece of paper. A hypermaze, however, can be defined using a piece of paper, only, if you use a graph to describe how the pieces fit together. This is true for…
Number distributions are excessively useful to random number generators. Procedural generation tends to revolve around random numbers, ergo number distributions are immensely useful in procedurally generating data. With distributions you can easily give some spice to your random number rolls. Give a hero a damage range…
If you have a project you're working on which has memory constraints, you'll probably consider data compression to some degree or another at some point in development. Memory constraints are usually due to limitations of hardware on your target system/architecture; for reasons, you're probably looking at…
There you are designing a parallel algorithm, and then it occurs to you: How do I return information to the main thread from a child thread? If you've skimmed through half of The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) by Bjarne Stroustrup like I have, you may…
The problem is this: You have a two dimensional grid, and you need to scan the entire thing. Sure, but what does this ambiguous "scan" do? Well this particular post is about a word search puzzle, so the scans need to create strings to be used…
