Just a little heads up about the small print... the CC license they're under is CC-BY-NC, which means that the works can't be used in libre software.
I think it would behoove us to contact some of the better artists on the list (we can probably do without the spinning penises) and ask them if they'd be willing to license their work without the NC clause. :)
If you're okay with collisions and you just want to sort them into a bunch of buckets, one thing you can do is, say, hash them by the first character. This is, of course, assuming that the strings are relatively random. If you want to be as fast as possible, my general advice is to pick something that you expect to be different about each string and write a custom has function based on that. If you need to avoid collisions at all costs, use an existing algorithm. :)
I emailed Ken Perlin (the inventor of Perlin noise) about it last night, asking if a) someone else had already thought of this, and b) he had any thoughts. Hopefully he'll get back to me about it. :)
However, in OGA 2.0, we're going to have a system for determining the "done-ness" of art, where we can set it at WIP, Finished, and Refined. The reason for this being that, since Open Source is a collaborative effort, it's more constructive to point out where a piece of art has room for improvement. The difference between this scale and a normal rating scale is that it's designed to allow a piece of art to move upward along it as it's refined and improved. But, from the perspective of someone who's searching for art, it should accomplish the same thing as a rating system.
Well, if you take the surface a cylinder along the X axis and unwrap it, you only have a 2 dimensional texture. Turning that sideways and wrapping it around a cylinder isn't going to make that seamless.
So, my read of that license is that you're fine as long as what you're posting isn't *just* a garageband loop. If you've added to it or changed it, then you're good.
Just found this one: http://www.derekyu.com/tigs/assemblee/ There is some very good as well as very bad stuff in there :) All kinds of 2D and 3D art.
Just a little heads up about the small print... the CC license they're under is CC-BY-NC, which means that the works can't be used in libre software.
I think it would behoove us to contact some of the better artists on the list (we can probably do without the spinning penises) and ask them if they'd be willing to license their work without the NC clause. :)
If you're okay with collisions and you just want to sort them into a bunch of buckets, one thing you can do is, say, hash them by the first character. This is, of course, assuming that the strings are relatively random. If you want to be as fast as possible, my general advice is to pick something that you expect to be different about each string and write a custom has function based on that. If you need to avoid collisions at all costs, use an existing algorithm. :)
Thanks a lot! :)
Bart
So, are you working on any game idea in particular?
I emailed Ken Perlin (the inventor of Perlin noise) about it last night, asking if a) someone else had already thought of this, and b) he had any thoughts. Hopefully he'll get back to me about it. :)
Not at the moment.
However, in OGA 2.0, we're going to have a system for determining the "done-ness" of art, where we can set it at WIP, Finished, and Refined. The reason for this being that, since Open Source is a collaborative effort, it's more constructive to point out where a piece of art has room for improvement. The difference between this scale and a normal rating scale is that it's designed to allow a piece of art to move upward along it as it's refined and improved. But, from the perspective of someone who's searching for art, it should accomplish the same thing as a rating system.
Bart
Well, if you take the surface a cylinder along the X axis and unwrap it, you only have a 2 dimensional texture. Turning that sideways and wrapping it around a cylinder isn't going to make that seamless.
So, my read of that license is that you're fine as long as what you're posting isn't *just* a garageband loop. If you've added to it or changed it, then you're good.
I tweaked the settings, so hopefully it should work now.
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