MarkovJunior VS FallingSandJava

Our of curiosity, have you seen MarkovJunior, from the same developer? It's a generalization of WFC into a far more powerful probabilistic programming language capable of not only assembling random maps, but even generating solveable Sokoban levels?

It's not WFC but I'll be working on this soon too. For now I rewrote MarkovJunior in Rust, and made it into a library that is both faster and easly extensible.

Github source by the mxgmn

Have https://cragl.cs.gmu.edu/pixelate/ be used to preserve features of your input image and keep the resolution input low for WFC, then randomly select features (shapes) from the input image to be used for procedural creation, like in the Dungeon Growth example from: https://github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior

I've done a similar thing myself when trying to test operations on a hierarchical database for my internal product.

Biggest difficulty for me was that some combinations of operations were illegal and I had to think about all the edge cases and filter them out, and this took a long time.

My SO works in hardware, and she says they always use a constraint solver to generate test cases / test vectors, and she never understood why this wasn't popular in software. I googled it a bit and found lots of academic papers but no concrete implementation.

I've also thought about generating test vectors using a generator based on Markov chains, I wrote about that here [0], based on this [1] submission.

I'm not familiar enough with either using constraint solvers to generate test cases, or Markov chains, to know if I'm talking nonsense here or is it just something that nobody thought to develop properly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704791

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior

Have you played with MarkovJunior? You can write game rules in 2 or 3 dimensions (or any other dimension) using colors.

I implemented my own take on MarkovJunior (https://github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior), which is fancy pattern replacement (from the same mind who gave us WaveFunctionCollapse). Here is some dungeon creation algorithm.

I am working on porting a falling sand simulation I originally built in Java over to Rust. I have chosen ggez as the framework to do this since from what I read Piston development has mostly stopped and falling sand simulations are not well suited to ECS engines like Bevy, etc.