by fogleman on 1/23/2018, 10:07:08 PM
by mattbierner on 1/23/2018, 10:21:26 PM
Very cool! I did a something using bitmaps a few months back ( https://blog.mattbierner.com/nes-memory/ ) but I really like how he visualized changes here.
If anyone is interested in exploring something similar, here's the simple fceux script I used to sample the memory of a running NES game: https://github.com/mattbierner/NES-Memory-Visualization/blob...
by mrkstu on 1/23/2018, 9:26:02 PM
What is going on with Mega Man? The other games look relatively atomic but Mega Man has obvious dependencies spanning memory locations...
by octorian on 1/23/2018, 10:30:13 PM
This actually makes me think of a project I'm currently neck-deep in working on... Taking captured audio hardware register writes (in the form of a VGM file) and having a modern microcontroller actually replay them on an actual NES CPU. In other words... A hardware-based NES game music player. (Of course I'm not actually visualizing much, yet.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97jic_WRrwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafaFr9Q_rU
by makmanalp on 1/23/2018, 9:34:56 PM
This is wonderful! This is kinda like a project I'm working on where we're instrumenting memory accesses across each memory cell in a data structure to be able to visually profile how the data structure is being used.
Plotting each cell individually over time had never occurred to me, and I'll definitely try this!
by evanb on 1/23/2018, 10:09:39 PM
I could listen to the plotter go for hours.
by ukulele on 1/24/2018, 7:23:30 AM
Late to the party, but just wanted to comment that I appreciated the namesake spelled out by social media icons in the footer. Some people put thought into all angles :)
by neilcarpenter on 1/24/2018, 10:03:15 AM
Really cool! Reminds me of distellamap by Ben Fry (co-creator of Processing) - http://benfry.com/distellamap/
by taude on 1/23/2018, 10:45:12 PM
In reading these comments, I'm surprised about the naivety of typical HN reader with their relationship with the price of art.
I mean, a photo only costs like $10 to print an 8x10, why would the artist dare charge $200 or more?
by tomc1985 on 1/23/2018, 9:19:37 PM
$200 per print from a pen plotter?
I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.
Woah, hey, it's me! I wanted to share this on HN but wasn't sure if it was kosher. I guess someone else did it for me!
I just started working on these last week and they were very well received on Twitter. Then, to my astonishment, Edward Tufte retweeted it!
https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/954537749234765825
I have one of his books but didn't realize he was on Twitter until that moment. I was blown away.
A lot of folks asked to buy one, so I made the page that this HN post links to on Sunday night. Within hours Tufte reached out to buy 3 of them! :-o I have 6 other buyers so far as well. So I've been busy fulfilling these requests and trying to figure out shipping and stuff.
Interestingly, about half of the buyers so far are in neuroscience.
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...