Objective: You have a base at the center and you need to mine and "refine" all of the resources on the map in as short a time as possible.

By default, the game will play automatically, but not optimally (moving and buying upgrades). You can disable that with the buttons. You can select drones and right click to move them to specific resources patches and buy upgrades as you earn upgrade points.

I've implemented three different levels and some basic sounds. I used Phaser at the game library (first time using it). It won't work well on a mobile.

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That led me to shape regularization (a technique used in computational geometry to clean up geometric data). CGAL had implemented a few methods for that, but there are more ways to do it, which I thought were nice. Also I typically work in Python, so it was nice to have a pure Python library could handle this.

I struggled to get the first version working as a QP. At a high level most of these boil down to minimizing a cost A + B where A is the cost associated the geometry and goes up the more you move it, and B is the cost associated "niceness" or rather the constraints you impose, and goes down the more you impose them. Then you try and minimize A + B or rather HA + (1-H)B where H is a hyper-parameter that controls the relative importance of A and B.

I needed a Python implementation so started with the examples implemented in CGAL then added a couple more for snap and joint regularization and metric regularization.

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I try to deconstruct and solve interesting coding problems usually from programming competitions.

https://gist.github.com/nickponline/9a3fb1ee5333c52ed195625e...

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