Procedural generation

These are my bookmarks on procedural generation and topics closely related to it.

I have marked articles with a and examples and code snippets with ex. The other tags should be self-explanatory. Items without a tag are software.

Contents

3D models from code

• AngelCAD. “AngelCAD is a powerful open source 3D solid modeller based on the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) modelling technique, expressed in the AngelScript language.”
• Antimony. “Antimony is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables.”
• “Distance functions” a. Inigo Quilez.
• “Function representation” or “FRep” a. Wikipedia.
• VoxelDesc. A command line-driven voxel editor. No longer maintained.

Book covers

• “Generative eBook Covers” a. Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga. 2014.

Cities

• City Map Generator. Creates maps, heightmaps, and 3D models of American-style cities in the browser.
• “Cubic cityscape #1” ex. A tunable turtle graphics effect.
• “Procedural City” a. Shamus Young. 2009.
• Voyager3 blog. “Explorations into procedural village and landscape generation”.

Game engines with procedural generation

• Liminal. “An in-house prototyping game engine for no-static-assets procedural games…” No longer maintained.
• ZGameEditor. “Create games that have a redistributable size of only 64kb or less using procedural content. The game engine use OpenGL for graphics and a real time synthesizer for audio.”

Human figures

• MakeHuman. A tool for making 3D human characters.

Landscapes and maps

• Cylindrical World Generator. “Watch a world be born or make your own edits”.
• “Generating fantasy maps” a ex. Martin O’Leary. An article with embedded (open source) demonstrations.
• gaia. An Earth-like world generator in Haxe + Flixel.
• {Shan, Shui}*. Procedurally-generated infinitely-scrolling vector Chinese landscape paintings for the browser.
• proclib. “A library and syntax language for structure-centric world/map generation.”
• “Realistic terrain in 130 lines” a ex. Hunter Loftis. 2014.
• World Builder Page. A collection of tools for landscape creation and visualization.
• WorldEngine. A world generator based on geological and climate simulations.

Levels

• platformgen. “2D platform game map generator for #procjam 2014”.

Music

• “Bytebeat” a links. Kragen. 2012. Music that comes from simple waveform generators.

Textures

• Genetica. “[T]he world’s most powerful editor of seamless textures, animated textures, and HDRI environment maps”. Proprietary.
• NeoTextureEdit. An open source graph-based procedural seamless texture editor.

Trees

• 2D Tree Generator. “Procedurally generate 2D or 3D trees using multiple particles with defined behaviours.”

Video

• PixiVisor. “PixiVisor is a tool for experimenting with the transmission of video over audio.”

Misc.

• “Debris: Opening the box” a. An exploration of how the demoscene group “farbrausch” made “fr-041: debris.”
• Inconvergent a ex. A generative art project. Contains the artist’s gallery and a series of illustrated articles on generative algorithms.
• The Nature of Code book. A course that teaches programming simulations of natural systems with Processing.
• Procedural Content Generation in Games book. Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius, and Mark J. Nelson. 2016. “A textbook and an overview of current research.”
• Procedural generation subreddit links
• Procedural World blog. “Following one man’s task of building a virtual world from the comfort of his pajamas. Discusses Procedural Terrain, Vegetation and Architecture generation. Also OpenCL, Voxels and Computer Graphics in general.”
• ProcGen Tumblr blog.