The ocean in Final Fantasy IX is made of Wang tiles
Details
- External ID
- 48808276
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The ocean in Final Fantasy IX is made of Wang tiles
- Website domain
- jawnston.com
- Launched
- July 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
made a fun little website with AI to explain how the Oceans in FFIX are authored after days of slamming my head against the keyboard trying to deconstruct it
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- game design analysis
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an educational interactive blog post using HTML5 Canvas to explain and demonstrate the 2D Wang tile algorithm.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
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Launched 215 days after the earliest competitor.
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