I'm missing a lot here. How does this equate to wave function collapse?
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#22This is great. Someone should make a Minecraft plugin.
The way I see it, this would be the perfect way to produce semi-altered terrain sprites automatically. Right now,the textures are pseudo-randomly rotated for things like dirt blocks, grass tops, and stone. [1] However, with this you could create a multitude of different textures based off a single source.
Plus, dungeons could be a lot more interesting. It'd be interesting to see what could be done with it...
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#23Extremely nice to create procedural maps and other stuff.
Really nice.
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#24This could be extra awesome if it could be made small and fast enough to be able to execute as a fragment shader.
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#25Can you feed it something other than bitmaps? Like its own source code?
On that tangent, it could be useful for fuzzing inputs to image analysis algorithms.
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#26I'm missing a lot here. How does this equate to wave function collapse?
>with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics.
>so it doesn't do the actual quantum mechanics, but it was inspired by QM.
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#27Cool. I wonder what the results are on a high resolution image.
Google maps could maybe be interesting. Create alternate Earth maps to use... somehow... logistics? climate?
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#28This is amazing, and could have very cool applications in procedural generation.
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#29Mindblowing... 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 :)
Something similar does exist:
http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
It detects places in songs where the sound is similar, and can jump between these places in the track to make a seamless unending song.
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#30Brilliant!
Don't really understand the technique, but would like your thoughts on if it's possible to give a Penrose tile set as a seed and see if aperiodic order is generated.
Lovin' it!