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Ask HN: Fractal archives?
Is it possible to give somebody a fractal formula... and then coordinates and another formula. And by calculations the next person will generate a file* larger than the provided formula and coordinate formula itself.
This is an idea... I'm sure that it's possible. What do you think?
- gus_massa 8y agoIt is similar to the auto generated random terrains. See for example https://blog.habrador.com/2013/02/how-to-generate-random-terrain.html https://blog.habrador.com/2013/02/how-to-generate-random-ter... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196154 (95 points | Feb 10, 2013 | 27 comments) In this blog, the terrain is generated at random, but there are other variants that has a coarse version of the map as input and complete them deterministically (for example using a fixed seed). There are a few more posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=random%20terrain&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=random%20terrain&sort=byPopula...