Teardown – Virtual Trading Floor
I’ve been messing with this game “Teardown” that uses little 3D cubes called “voxels” to build objects and terrain. When I started, there were only two editors that would build things for it, and I wanted to understand it better – so I dove into some tools to see what makes the .vox file format…
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Virtual Trading Floor – (Cont.)
More pictures and design elements that went into this project: One thing they don’t tell you about older displays like flipdots is the sound they make. When a whole series of them are moving, its like something between the murmur of a crowd and the shuffling of cards. A bit “zen”, I think. Sitting on…
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VTF – Furnishings And Destruction
After getting all the sprites working for different orientations on the quoteboards, it was time to turn to filling in the floor with authentic props, at least partially. I ended up reworking these pieces so they were more modular – then I could import them into the editor and piece together what I needed. Making…
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VTF – Quoteboard Fun
Initial plan was to make signs using Krita, a free graphics program, and import them into my favorite voxel editor to make them into voxel signs. Problem is, I really needed the resolution, so the voxel characters were too blocky and it really detracted from the legibility. I ended up making a dynamic sign that…
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VTF – Signs And Quote Data
I said I’d fix all the quoteboard signs, and I did – took a bit of work since I had to do all the contract names and the months (for futures), but it was worth it. Here’s the final result: I also figured out how to implement a “style” layer for colors on the different…
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VTF – Parsing The Sea Of Quotes
Like most things, if I think its going to be easy I usually find some stones I need to hop over to make some progress. Last time, we left off with me using Tradingview’s websockets to grab some quote data. The result of which looks a bit like this: What the eff does that stuff…
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VTF – Fun With Time
Did I say “fun”? Yes, I did. Though figuring this out initially wasn’t very fun at first. When it comes to price data, you have to know a few things when collating a bunch of historical prices. Namely the duration from one date to the next, or from a point in the past to the…
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VTF – Quotes And Clever Bastards
There I was, puttering right along and getting some quote data when the unthinkable happened — Tradingview got wise to my quote-scraping ways, and the historical data I successfully was getting turned into error messages from the server. Dang. Oh, cruel fate. I had to regroup and try to salvage something. I had a bunch…
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VTF – Polling And Tick Data
Last time I left off at ditching Tradingview as a quote source. These things happen, and I learned quite a lot along the way, so I’m not troubled by it. Turning locally, as in my own hard drive, I began sifting through the data that gets archived by my chart provider. Fortunately they aren’t super-protective…
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