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Re:Spaceship Generator by sowbug on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:05PM (#11930088)
But it does scale better, doesn't it? Seems that would be the case if more tools and libraries like this one were open-sourced.
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Re:Spaceship Generator by moron4hire on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:46PM (#11930292)
Not really. The problem with procedurally generated content is making interesting iterations. Sure, you can have a million space ships just as easy as one, but will anyone care about them? It is a different sort of work, but of equal effort, to "just" modeling the content.
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Re:Spaceship Generator by hyperpallium on Saturday June 18, 2016 @06:25PM (#11930910)
Even most landscapes on Earth (reality is "procedurally generated" by the laws of physics) are pretty boring. Spectacular documentaries must travel far to reach the interesting ones.

Interesting procedural generation may require strong AI, because it must model how it is interpreted by us.

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Re:Spaceship Generator by djrogers on Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:55PM (#11931610)
> Even most landscapes on Earth (reality is "procedurally generated" by the laws of physics) are pretty boring.

Strongly disagree! I truly feel sorry for you if you can't see beauty and spectacle everywhere you look in nature.

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