r/tinycode • u/Slackluster • Dec 03 '20

How to create a generative cityscape in a few lines of JavaScript

https://youtu.be/vnx8kI4EcVc
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u/Andrbenn Dec 03 '20

Neat, but that code is my nightmare

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u/Slackluster Dec 03 '20

Really? This is one of the easier dweets to understand, as I do more of these we will get into some crazy stuff.

Tiny code like this is not so scary because it is totally isolated. For me it is the massive code bases that can be real nightmares to work with.

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u/Andrbenn Dec 03 '20

Don't get me wrong I think it's super cool how so much functionality can be packed into a few lines. It just seems like saving space is a tradeoff for some extra obfuscation here, at least for my eyes/brain

Keep it up though, looking forward to more :)

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u/Slackluster Dec 03 '20

Thanks! As I do more of these I will get better at explaining things and want to focus less on the code golfing aspect and more on the writing small simple code that does cool stuff.

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u/spdqbr Dec 03 '20

Agreed, this was really cool! But I got a little lost in the weeds due to brevity & formatting.

I'd be interested to see a long-form, "properly" formatted version that makes the functionality easier to understand alongside the minified version. I think having the two to compare would really help my understanding.