Is that the whole of the article? What's going on here? That website design is too "clever" for its own good. Is this just a HOLO / Stream ad? Is HOLO / Stream just basically ads? This whole experience has basically just irritated me. Why did you do this?

The article has all the links, I try to sort it out for you:

1. Disney vegetation is cleverly generated using procedural formulas (Video)


2. the generation is triggered by the actual coder's phone number (self-documenting code for checking back on him)


3. new phone number in code updates vegetation on several films, panic ensues


4. his page contains 15 years of 3D programming tricks

The "article" is literally half of a sentence, copied from a tweet, and some confusingly presented context links. This is some of the worst web design I've seen in my life. Geocities was better than this.

This strikes me as a cute but really, really dumb idea. Why did changing his phone number result in changes to the output of the code? Either he had it somehow dynamically linked to an external database (unnecessary and just begging to get broken) or he changed it manually, himself, after his phone was changed, which he should have known would change the foliage, creating continuity errors. I would rip this guy a new asshole.