Gallery

Summary:

examples of PCG.

Gallery

droid 17 Jun 2009 00:52

There should be a gallery where we can place pretty pictures. Now I don't want to have a screenshot of every single game that features procedural content (that belongs on the pages for those games), but I think it would be neat to have a place where you can see a bunch of neat things, and for any one of them, find the howto required to make it.

So, for each image:

• Credit for the image (if it is not yours)
• Link to algorithm/source code for the image.

I will start.

Edit:
And we should limit the width of images displayed to 600 pixels or so.

Last edited on 17 Jun 2009 00:57 by droid Show more

Re: Gallery

andrewdoull 17 Jun 2009 08:52

Hi,

Great idea. I can't see a top level page for the gallery: I'm guessing gallery is the best link; adding this to the menu bar at the top of the page once we have some images populated would provide another way for people to navigate the site.

Re: Gallery

droid 19 Jun 2009 19:43

Actually, I was thinking that a forum thread would be best, at least at first. All someone has to do is show the image and explain how it was generated. While to create or edit a page in the wiki would require knowing what to call it, where to file it, etc. Though we won't know how things will turn out untill we get more images.

Re: Gallery

droid 19 Jun 2009 19:17

Created group: PCG Gallery on flickr.

Anyway, first image:

Algorithm in forums.

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Re: Gallery

andrewdoull 19 Jun 2009 22:41

I'm in the process of creating the initial gallery page.

You may want to have a look at the gallery module in the wiki syntax for a useful way to display this. However:

Allowed "per-image attributes are: * link - URL or wiki page name (does not work with Flickr images to be o.k. with Flickr terms)

Re: Gallery

droid 10 Jul 2009 20:56

OK, now anyone with a flickr account can join the PCG gallery and their images will end up on the gallery page on our site. There are a set of rules to be agreed to, that is mostly so that people that have never joined the wiki can add stuff without messing up what we want to do here (the only other member of the group falls into that category).

The FlickrGallery module is kind of neat but could still use some work. There are two features that should exist, might not take to much work on the part of wikidot:

1: allow tags to be negated: that is we want to exclude all images that have certain tags. This isn't a big issue but would be nice. I filed this as a bug but that probably isn't the correct place to put it.
something like:

[[module FlickrGallery tags="procedural" excludeTags="unicorns" tagMode="any"]]

2: allow tags to be combined with "alternative attributes": photosetId, groupId, groupUrl. If this was implemented we could use the gallery to populate other pages. (An expamle is fractal. Using tags only there are many images there that are not proceduraly generated (such as photographs of plants) and very few have any explanation as to where they come from. There are images in the flickr group pool that have the tag fractal and it would be nice if we could show them that page.)

[[module FlickrGallery groupId="1153986@N23" tags="fractal"]]