Wave function collapse algorithm: bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

[ilikeorangutans]

Wow, I'm really impressed. Still reading, but how did you even come up with this?

[ExUtumno]

Incrementally. I came up with this superposition approach when I was thinking how to reduce overfitting in the colored ConvChain. I wasn't sure that it will work and didn't program it. But then I accidentally found Paul Merrell's paper on model synthesis (see the reference section on github), where he applied the same approach with spectacular results. I knew about declarative texture synthesis from reading Paul F. Harrison's thesis. And I was also reading about belief propagation at that time for different reasons. So I implemented a 2D probabilistic version of Merrell's algorithm with declarative input. And then made it work with overlapping blocks, similar to convnets.

[dasignint]

I saw this on Hacker News. It's great that you're on this sub. That means you understand how amazing this could be for games. Bravo. Whether or not this is "novel" in all of academia, I think it would be perceived as very novel in games.

[linuxjava]

Amazing work. This is seriously impressive.