Dictionary of generative technics

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Generative maps: Diablo

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Generative characters: Spore

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Generative world: Minecraft

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Generative history: Dwarf Fortress

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Generative wigs: Victoria and Albert Museum

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Generative sweaters: repeat offfender

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Generative puzzles: Nervous System

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Generative cocktails: Watson

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Let's generate something?

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Generative cookbook 1. What are you're generating? 2. Generate something 3. Repeat 2.

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What are you're generating? • Specific • Defines constraints • Study the subject

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Artist in a box100 100 Kate Compton's GDC talk

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Additive • Tiles • Grammars • Distribution • Parametric • Interpritive • Simulations

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Tiles Works for equal permutation, or for creating interesting combinations

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Tiles Jack Rusher; @avdsterren; Escher, Circle Limit III

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Grammars Recursive structure definition

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Grammars Diana Lange; Tom Beddard; me

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Distribution290 1. Throw down a bunch of stuff. 2. Profit Beaware of pseudo-random numbers. 290 Diego Bellorin;

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Distribution Matt DesLauriers; Saskia Freeke;

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Barnacling300 300 Monument Valley

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Footing301 301 Domenicobrz

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Greebling302 302 David Mignot

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Grids303 303 - Kjetil Golid

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Voronoi304 304 Kai

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etc (cells305) 305 Brandon Lester

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Parametric

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Space of parameters400 400 Jan Järfalk

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Any point is an artefact Maxim Gumin;

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Walks through parametric space823 823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948.pdf

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So much space (aka how to navigate it?) • User directed • Genetic algorithms • Compartmenalize parameters (ML clustering)

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Interpretive 238 511 1. Interpret input 2. Profit 511 Zach Lieberman 238 Spore interpretive system (SIGGRAPH 2008)

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Interpretive: experimental music notation42 42 https://llllllll.co/t/experimental-music-notation-resources/149/41

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Noise → terrain314 Pascal Beeckmans; Oleg Soroko 314 Terrain Generation with Perlin Noise in Processing

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Voronoi / Delaunay https://vimeo.com/149954353; Domenig & Eilfried Huth

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Metaballs919, fractals Nick Hart-Woods; Pedram Najafgholi; Gerard Ferrandez; Jacob Joaquin; Broccoli; Tobias Grothmann 919 Not meatballs

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Impossible geometry Hypernom; Miegakure

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Simulations

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Particles me

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Cellular automata Kjetil Golid; Dimitris Gourdoukis; Bryan Fan

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Agent-based simulation Creative Code Salon; nøcomputer; nøcomputer

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Physics simulation Étienne Jacob; gabor papp; kgold

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History simulation (!) Dwarf Fortress; Caves of Qud

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Subtractive methods • Saving seeds • Generate and test • throwaway vs ranking / prioritization • Computationally exploring the possibility space (search) • bruteforce search • gradient descent / hill climbing • genetic algorithms • works well with parametric • Constraint solving

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Links • Kate Compton's GDC talk • So you want to build a generator… • Procedurally Generating History in 'Caves of Qud' • Procedural Content Generation Wiki (omg!!) • That thread on music notations • Algorithmic Botany (omg!!) • Real-time motion retargeting to highly varied user-created morphologies • That 4D game • Coding Train