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Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by etatoby » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:24 PM UTC

This is great!

It would be interesting to apply this concept to wavelets (instead of pixels or voxels) in order to work on real-life pictures.

Also, 3 dimensions as in X, Y and time, to work on animated GIFs. Think about an infinite, never repeating Blue Ball Machine! http://m.imgur.com/5Flh68G

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by antirez » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

Very cool algorithm, and impressive visual results. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by kowdermeister » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:41 PM UTC

twfarland wrote: post #7

Mindblowing... could this technique also be applied to music?

It should be, at least on audio level it would work. It would make a nice VST :)

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by bduerst » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

I don't have much to contribute to the conversation on this other than that it's incredibly cool.

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by phaedrus » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

This requires no more up front work than a Markov-based technique, but produces results on par with an L-grammar. It may be generally applicable to the problem domains of both!

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by TheRealPomax » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

valine wrote: post #3

You should add some gifs with a lower frame rate. I had to download the one you had and walk through frame by frame. Absolutely beautiful.

lower framerate, or lower playback speed?

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by vinchuco » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

TheRealPomax wrote: post #16

valine wrote: post #3

You should add some gifs with a lower frame rate. I had to download the one you had and walk through frame by frame. Absolutely beautiful.

lower framerate, or lower playback speed?

Probably meant playback speed. Probably you knew this.

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by xixixao » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 2:54 PM UTC

Amazing. Make sure to scroll through the whole README to see voxel models. Rendered using http://ephtracy.github.io/index.html which is in itself pretty cool too.

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by ianai » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

I'm missing a lot here. How does this equate to wave function collapse?

Re: Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm

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Post by vinchuco » Fri, Sep 30, 2016, 3:01 PM UTC

Can you feed it something other than bitmaps? Like its own source code?