How Random Is Random?

Canoe

Canoe
I'm currently out in the black, and have seen a few occurences of planets with craters that are literally in a grid. Is this to be expected or something that could be considered to be a bug in terrain generation? Here's one..


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Jaggedmallard

Jaggedmallard
There is a known limitation of the stellar forge where things seem to form in grids due to limitations of Floating Point maths . I've only seen it happen to stars and asteroid clusters/planetary rings though.
 

aRJay

aRJay
I remember being told back in the day that it is a lot of work if not virtually impossible to get truly random numbers from a computer, of course I am getting on now so that might have been down to the limitations of the cams.

So the answer to your title is probably pseudo.
 

Straker

Straker
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann

But yes, most likely the grid in the image is due to some mathematical rounding effect or something similar.
 

Jack Schitt

Jack Schitt
I used to see it a lot with those "cookie" planets (light surface, dark spots) especially during the Great Beigeification where it was more immediate to the eye. The spots would appear in rows. I don't recall ever seeing it with craters, though, nor over such a large surface area of the planet. Interesting find.
 
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