WaveFunctionCollapse Alternatives

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• Python Wave Function Collapse Problem
  1 project | reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration | 26 Nov 2021

  Looking at all other Wave Function Collapse algorithms I've sought to create my own.

• Need help wrapping my head around Wave Function Collapse in 3D
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration | 26 Nov 2021

  My advice is to start with a simpler tileset, like 2d knots, check if the algorithm works there. If it does, move to 3d knots. If it works for 3d knots, move to the simplest possible building tileset. If it works for simple buildings, move to your (pretty complex) buildings. You'll probably catch a lot of bugs along the way.

• slightly closer to wfc in lisp
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp | 16 Nov 2021

  I did not take the time to understand what this was about before, but looking at the WFC project in Github, I now get what you are trying to accomplish, maybe you could have explained a bit more to generate more hype. I think the project looks both very interesting and very promising.

  2 projects | reddit.com/r/Common_Lisp | 16 Nov 2021

  Visual confirmation that sampling of this is correct . Displaying samples at arbitrary zooms done.

• WFC(Wave Function Collapse) Issues
  1 project | reddit.com/r/roguelikedev | 6 Nov 2021

  Because you don't do full propagation in step 5. In WFC, observed tiles influence their neighboring tiles which in turn influence their neighbors, and so on. You do this iteration only one time, which results in unresolved tiles.

• Use Wave Collapse Function To Create A NFT Metaverse
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Nov 2021
• William Morris and wallpaper design (2018)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2021

  Is anyone aware of a Wave Function Collapse[1] utility or similar that could take these wallpaper fragments as seeds?

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

• I need a theme for my Wave Function Collapse game that is more interesting than "Pipes"
  1 project | reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration | 3 Sep 2021
• WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input
  1 project | reddit.com/r/hackernews | 17 Jul 2021
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2021
• Creating a 'dungeon' in Python out of images. Is this possible in Python?
  3 projects | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 30 Jun 2021

  You might also want to look into the wave function collapse algorithm. The page links to a python implementation (no clue if it is good). This algo was the basis for dungeon alchemist which auto generates awesome looking dungeons.

• Nvidia Canvas
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2021

  Well, I think there is enough interesting research to put things in place. Not in single model. But, we have

  1. Wave-function collapse models that synthesize domain data quite nicely when parametrized nicely - this is a "simpler" example of the concept. https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

  2. Fairly good understanding how to synthesize terrain. Terragen is a good example of this (although not public research, the images drive the point home nicely) https://planetside.co.uk/

  So, we could use the source image from this as a seed to the wave-function collapse model that would use known terrain parametrization schemes to synthesize something usable (so basically create a Terragen equivalent model)

  I think that's it plausibly more or less.

• One of the struggles that I face is creating a fun/challenge yet believable environment. I started with creating a "racing circuit" and then filling it with assets but didn't think about the verticality first so yeah, had to rebuild it. Here's a peek of one of the streets that I'm working on
  1 project | reddit.com/r/ps1graphics | 7 Jun 2021

  It might be overkill but if you're more on the developer side, you might like using a wave function collapse solution to get easy complex textures from a very basic tile. It's basically a procedural generation of textures.

• Sharing Saturday #364
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/roguelikedev | 29 May 2021

  Also learned about a procedural generation method called WFC, and saw a Reddit post that used a similar method to create great-looking Pokemon/Zelda-esque map screens. Unfortunately, I'm unable to find that post again! Essentially, the methods define constraints for which tile types can be next to which other ones. Then they generate a map by collapsing a single tile into a specific type and propagating the results to its neighbours (i.e. reducing their possible types). Unfortunately, some donkey named the algorithm "Wave Function Collapse", which is already a term in physics. You can imagine how difficult that makes it to search for it. Not only that, the name seems to me to be a complete misnomer: there is "collapse", but there is no "wave function", as far as I can tell. It's just discrete probabilities for the types of each tile in the grid. And it seems that most implementations don't even make those probabilities differently weighted. So their "wave" is just a flat histogram. So, shame about the name, but it does seem like it could be a useful algorithm for generating any kind of arrays (tiled 2D maps, bitmaps, voxel maps...). And the algorithm's principles are super simple, which has shown me that constraint programming isn't magic!

• 🔝Top 10 C# Projects on GitHub (Q1 2021) and the trend
  15 projects | dev.to | 15 Apr 2021

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