David Brabens talk at Tedx in Albert Hall.

JohnWhitehouse · Oct 2, 2013

Never forget even simple rules create complexity.

I love the whole idea of procedural generation. I'm not good with maths but I grasp the concepts.

I'm already sifting over enough SF at the moment, please don't bring SGU into it!!!

Slawkenbergius · Oct 2, 2013

Cool. Really enjoyed that, though too short! Some of the pics looked rather nice too.

Valkyrie · Oct 2, 2013

That was really nice.

Those planets are beautiful!

I wonder if we can have those as wallpapers.. in particular the ice world with narrow band of vegetation!

Maxeren · Oct 3, 2013

Am i the only one spotting hexogonal artifacts in the planet generation? i seem to be seeing this in some of the pictures from the video.

Oss133 · Oct 3, 2013

Maxeren said:
Am i the only one spotting hexogonal artifacts in the planet generation? i seem to be seeing this in some of the pictures from the video.

No. I pointed it out in the Peek of the Week.

Oss133 · Oct 3, 2013

It was in the Private Backers forum.

oss133 said:
There are some interestingly straight lines on the equator just before the shadow. They look like the edges of hexagons. Raxxla? Is that you?

roryscarlett · Oct 3, 2013

Great find Maxeren!!!!

Mikevet · Oct 3, 2013

Great talk, I didn't realise how much could be generated by this method.

IF there is a GOD/Creator, HE would not have needed to craft it all physically - all HE/SHE would need to do is generate the seed numbers and step back and watch it all develop over the millennia/eons.

Just a thought.

JKF · Oct 4, 2013

Mikevet said:
Great talk, I didn't realise how much could be generated by this method.

IF there is a GOD/Creator, HE would not have needed to craft it all physically - all HE/SHE would need to do is generate the seed numbers and step back and watch it all develop over the millennia/eons.

Just a thought.

If you look closely enough at anything in nature you'll find it's all created from simple rules.

I bet many on here, as kids, have used procedural generation. Spirograph was my favourite.

I first used procedural generation in code on the ZX81 to create mazes in some ridiculously small amount of memory. Used to spend hours viewing dud mazes from bad seeds to pick out the odd one that worked.