Debugging Railing Movement

  • Post published:December 10, 2021
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It’s hard to find some bugs when there are fast items which are moving in a tile map, possibly locking some states to prevent other items from moving into same tiles or allowing routing when multiple choices can be made.

To our rescue, it’s possible to slow down time to track down what’s exactly happening under the hood. This, together with some visual hints, helps the whole process.

The cyan tile represents the busy state while the string over the item tells the direction which the item is moving toward and its internal state relative to the current tile.

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Producing and assembling proteins

  • Post published:December 3, 2021
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Living cells are all about producing proteins for all kind of purposes, joining amino acids which are the building block of all the proteins.

Even the structure which gives the shape to the cell (and has a lot of other functions), the cytoskeleton, is made by proteins.

Proteins are usually synthesized in ribosomes and then they assemble in complex structures.

This is what it’s happening right here in the animation! This small network is producing microtubules, which are used to route items on the ground of the cell, in two steps:

  • first simple amino acids (round spheres) are crafted into tubulin in ribosomes
  • then a red tubulin and a green tubulin are assembled into a finished microtubule

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