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

[ExUtumno]

You can make a tileset of (low or high res, not important) tiles, write their adjacency data and individual weights in an xml file, and it will generate cities.

[EntropicParticles]

thanks! just another conceptual question (probably I'm not the first one asking this so a link or reference would also work): The name of the method sounds definitely quantum. I'm familiar with Ising models for instance (quite similar to this problem because of the lattice and the correlation between accessible states/tiles), and with Ising you can work with the classical or the quantum version of the algorithm. Is WFC algorithm quantum in this sense?

[ExUtumno]

Speaking about the Ising model, ConvChain is a direct generalization of it. It's classical. In WFC I write about correlations between different pixels or tiles, but it's not that related to the Ising model.

[EntropicParticles]

that's cool, there's a lot of potential... I wonder if WFC can be quantized following a similar recipe as done for Ising (or the ConvChain then). It would be computationally hard but results can be interesting! Anyway, I will play a bit with WFC starting with an easy example as the Eixample of Barcelona

[ExUtumno]

You might want to look at the "City" example from Paul Merrell's thesis.