Only Shadows is a First-Person surrealist exhibition of the post-traumatic psyche  begotten of the barbarism of conflict. It was originally created for my 3rd year group project, but since taking it to Dare Academy it has become much more.

This project looked into using Markov chains to generate 2D tile based maps, such as those used in Super Mario Brothers. The application reads in an image, e.g. an actual level from Super Mario Brothers, and then uses this to create new levels with a similar composition. 

The other half of that course work. This generates a height map using Perlin Noise, uses this to generate a terrain, colours it appropriately, and generates some semi-realistic rivers. 

This application uses fuzzy logic to control the steering of a car. It takes the distance from the racing line and the car's sideways velocity as inputs, and then calculates the acceleration required to move the car back to said racing line. 

This application shows a variety of graphics programming techniques, such as real-time shadows (kind of), distance based mesh tessellation, normal based texture blending, and various blur effects.