#tessellation — Public Fediverse posts

A minor, but still quite large, update to HyperRogue!

Suggest moves after 3 incorrect attempts, grow Ivy through narrow chasms, use compasses, rulers and non-Euclidean tools in the built-in drawing tool, more intuitive touch dragging, bugfixes and more!

https://github.com/zenorogue/hyperrogue/releases/tag/v13.1l #noneuclidean #roguelike #mathart #tessellation #HyperRogue #RogueViz #noneuclideanGeometry

Some social network analysis on Metroidvanias.

Data from https://www.reddit.com/r/metroidvania/comments/1dwqjp0/if_you_had_to_pick_5_of_the_best_metroidvanias/, two games are connected (with a weighted edge) when they appear in the same answer.

We arrange the games on the tiles, aiming to minimize the sum of (distance) * (weight). Hyperbolic geometry tends to be be good for this kind of visualization (closeness correlates to edge weight).

Tehora Rogue has run a community detection algorithm (using Gephi) on this network multiple times. This algorithm would find 4 to 6 communities in different runs, the 4 communities shown are based on aggregation of the results.
(There are "green" and "yellow" communities of sets of five games posted by "trolls" who have posted games not mentioned by anyone else, and the main genre splits into "blue" and "red" -- if you know these games, do you have any idea what the blue/red split could mean?

In the second picture, the red / blue / green components (excluding trolls) are determined by how often the game appeared in the same community as Iconoclasts / Cookie Cutter / Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. These three games were chosen because they frequently belonged to different communities.

#metroidvania #mathart #socialnetworkanalysis #gamedesign #rogueviz #NonEuclideanGeometry #NonEuclidean #tessellation

“Cairo Transitions: Radial”

Does this look like a #CairoTiling to you? Or could it be a #tessellation of trapezoids and triangles?

#worldTessellationDay #tessellations #tiling #tilings #mathart #mathsart #pentagons