VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Boids - An artificial life program which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds

   2025-05-10
   bird game/emergent-behaviour game/half-life game/simulation programming/java programming/lisp

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   • Craig Reynolds - Boids
   • Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp - Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it
   • Half-Life - Boid AI Flocking Behavior (Youtube)
   • AFlocks, Boids, Protozoans | Half-Life Resurgence (Youtube)
   • louis-jean0/boidsy - Interactive boids simulation in 2D and 3D using Bevy and Rust
2. Rust In Space! How Rust is powering next-generation space mission simulators

   2025-01-11
   astrodynamics programming/rust space time time/clock

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   • Angus Morrison: "How Rust is Powering Next-Generation Space Mission Simulators" | RustConf 2024
   • Slides
   • lox-space/lox - Oxidized Astrodynamics
3. What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

   2024-12-30
   distributed-system programming/go programming/python programming/rust programming/testing

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   • Antithesis - So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
   • Resonate - Deterministic Simulation Testing
   • TigerBeetle - Deterministic Simulation Testing
   • Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust - Can we match SQLite’s world-famous reliability?
   • Polar Signals - (Mostly) Deterministic Simulation Testing in Go
4. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning book city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation programming/c++ society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
5. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference

   2024-11-22
   architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
6. NS-3 Network Simulator - A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use

   2024-05-08
   network programming/c programming/c++ programming/python programming/xml simulator user-interface/qt

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   • nsnam/ns-3-dev
   • Tutorial
   • Installation
   • Models
   • NetAnim - Animates a previously executed simulation using an XML trace file generated during a simulation
7. Steam Audio - A full-featured audio solution that integrates environment and listener simulation

   2024-04-02
   audio game-engine/fmod game-engine/unity game-engine/unreal game/steam programming/c++ virtual-reality

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   • Steam Audio Open Source Release
   • ValveSoftware/steam-audio
8. Poorconn: Simulating Poor Network Conditions

   2024-03-10
   network/proxy programming/python programming/python/pytest programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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   • xuhdev/poorconn
   • poorconn - Pytest plugin
9. Comcast Proxy - Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems

   2024-03-10
   network/proxy programming/go programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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   • Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough
10. toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

    2024-03-10
    network/proxy network/tcp programming/go programming/ruby programming/testing/integration quality-of-service

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    • Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications
11. SIEVE - An Eviction Algorithm Simpler than LRU for Web Caches

    2024-01-03
    algorithm memory/cache

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    • SIEVE is simpler than LRU
    • Why Aren’t We SIEVE-ing?
    • cacheMon/libCacheSim - a high performance cache simulator and library
12. The Bibites - A simulation where you are able to watch evolution happen before your very eyes!

    2023-07-22
    game game/simulation genetic-algorithm graphics/2d procedural-generation

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13. Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)

    2022-09-24
    engine programming/c++ sound

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    • https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim
    • Simulating VTEC, a radial-5 engine and more with my engine simulator (there is sound)
14. Gearotic Motion - Gear Design and Simulation

    2022-05-16
    computer-aided-design diy gear graphics/3d mechanics

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    • https://www.youtube.com/c/ArthurFenerty/videos
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXMI65cmNw
15. Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir? | X-Plane Developer

    2021-08-19
    game/multiplayer game/simulation performance plane programming/elixir programming/erlang

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    via https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/

16. Keyboard Simulator | Design and test virtual keyboards

    2020-12-29
    design keyboard/mechanical-keyboard

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    • https://github.com/crsnbrt/keysim
17. OpenAI Gym - a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms

    2019-10-12
    algorithm artificial-intelligence data-science graphics/2d machine-learning programming/python simulation

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    • https://github.com/openai/gym
18. knuth-elevator: A Go implementation of the elevator simulator described by Donald E. Knuth.

    2019-09-16
    algorithm elevator knuth programming programming/go

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    > One of the references on Wikipedia’s Elevator Paradox page is a paper written by Donald E. Knuth dated many years prior to his simulator. A side-effect of that research experience may have been a lasting interest in the intricate details of elevator systems.

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation
19. Simulated-Code: pseudo-code image generator

    2019-09-11
    image processing programming/python

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/generative/comments/d2fnzu/simulated_code_tutorial_in_comments/
20. Q2VKPT - a game that is entirely raytraced and efficiently simulates fully dynamic lighting in real-time

    2019-02-01
    graphics/3d graphics/ray-tracing image programming/c programming/c++ render

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    • https://github.com/cschied/q2vkpt/