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I’m complaining about it because when I first heard about it, I tried to look up information to understand the algorithm and.. it turns out that “wavefunction c

I’m complaining about it because when I first heard about it, I tried to look up information to understand the algorithm and.. it turns out that “wavefunction collapse” is not useful, at all, as search terms or a starting point to learn anything about this algorithm. The name is completely useless to understanding it or finding out any more about it. You could say the same about bubble sort or whatever, sure, and a case might have been made about the name when it was first introduced, but now they’re established names where “bubble sort” are good search terms that will help you find lots of information about the algorithm, but “Wavefunction collapse” isn’t a widely used algorithm and the name has a lot of existing publications that are not related (because they’re to do with actual quantum physics, not this algorithm). Even searching “wavefunctoin collapse algorithm”, when I last did it, only found quantum physics result (that seems to have changed though, as I just did a google search and the entire first page is about this algorithm, but I see most of the results are quite recent: within the last few months)

phkahler 8y ago
>> but I see most of the results are quite recent: within the last few months I think you've answered your own question. I don't know how long this has been around and I'm not sure how long people have been calling it this. Regardless of any of that, it is now getting a name and recognition under that name. The world changes, and you're seeing a little of that here. On a related note, I wrote some code to take a piece of music and output guitar TAB. I'd print a number on every string where it was playable, and this left me to manually search for optimal fingerings (some notes have 5 or 6 options). Wave Function Collapse is exactly the type of thing I had been trying to devise to reduce the TAB to something easy to play. You could even change the constraints for different picking styles.
- dkersten 8y ago
  The original WFC github project was posted in 2016, so it took approx. 2 years before it became searchable. It’s fine now, but it was incredibly frustrating for me when I tried to look into it around January or February of this year. The WFC algorithm itself is very interesting to me and now that I can find more information and code, I’m eagerly planning to play with t myself in the coming weeks. :)
  - wizardforhire 8y ago
    We need to lower the noise floor or raise our attenuation level to valuable ideas, but yes this is a valid point. On a larger scale with population levels rising and our rate of dicovery/creation happening at idk... really fast, it behooves us crate diggers of good ideas is to step up our game. My only helpful suggestion to aid in this is read The War of Art[1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...

phkahler 8y ago

>> but I see most of the results are quite recent: within the last few months I think you've answered your own question. I don't know how long this has been around and I'm not sure how long people have been calling it this. Regardless of any of that, it is now getting a name and recognition under that name. The world changes, and you're seeing a little of that here. On a related note, I wrote some code to take a piece of music and output guitar TAB. I'd print a number on every string where it was playable, and this left me to manually search for optimal fingerings (some notes have 5 or 6 options). Wave Function Collapse is exactly the type of thing I had been trying to devise to reduce the TAB to something easy to play. You could even change the constraints for different picking styles.

dkersten 8y ago
The original WFC github project was posted in 2016, so it took approx. 2 years before it became searchable. It’s fine now, but it was incredibly frustrating for me when I tried to look into it around January or February of this year. The WFC algorithm itself is very interesting to me and now that I can find more information and code, I’m eagerly planning to play with t myself in the coming weeks. :)
- wizardforhire 8y ago
  We need to lower the noise floor or raise our attenuation level to valuable ideas, but yes this is a valid point. On a larger scale with population levels rising and our rate of dicovery/creation happening at idk... really fast, it behooves us crate diggers of good ideas is to step up our game. My only helpful suggestion to aid in this is read The War of Art[1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1...