#10803001, By Tiger_Walts No Man's Sky

Tiger_Walts 27 Jan 2015 13:59:17 16,674 posts
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Does incrementing a seed value by 1 result in only a minor change to the output of a procedural generation algorithm?

It depends on how complex your algorithms are.

That small change could have a very tiny effect on the output, or it could have a butterfly effect throughout the entire generation algorithm and make something completely different.

Some mathematical formulas will dampen a small change in a variable, some will exaggerate it, and others will produce a result that appears chaotic.

A good generation algorithm uses a mix of formulas so that neighboring objects will share common traits that make sense to, but can also differ quite drastically in other regards.

Edited by Tiger_Walts at 14:00:15 27-01-2015