"New algorithms" for tilemap generation? Maxim Gumin’s WaveFunctionCollapse is fast and produces nice results. A recent paper has been published outlining its

"New algorithms" for tilemap generation? Maxim Gumin’s WaveFunctionCollapse is fast and produces nice results. A recent paper has been published outlining its technique. WaveFunctionCollapse is Constraint Solving in the Wild http://isaackarth.com/papers/wfc_is_constraint_solving_in_the_wild/ http://isaackarth.com/papers/wfc_is_constraint_solving_in_th... Combine WFC with a touch of "domain distortion" to add some organic panache: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/warp/warp.htm http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/warp/warp.htm Or if you have space for several terabytes of high resolution NASA satellite imagery, you can always use that as a training set ;) A step towards procedural terrain generation with GANs https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03383 https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03383