Mastodawn

This is pretty cool.

It's a visualisation of the internals of The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro.

This is it generating the game landscape for the first level from 1024 pseudo-random numbers.

It’s an animated GIF. If you can’t see the animation, you can see it here:

Next week I'll be releasing a deep dive into exactly how this works.

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A big thanks to Simon Owen, whose excellent repository I forked and enhanced in order to build this visualisation. It's well worth a visit.