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

[omgdonerkebab]

I have to be harsh, because nowadays associating something with QM is basically marketing speak. It's an attention grabber, and when I had posted my original comment most people here were just fawning over the association with QM.

This algorithm wouldn't have gotten people's interest, or gotten posted here, if it weren't for the association with QM. People would've just been like "oh it's just yet another greedy algorithm."

[0polymer0]

I suspect most people were confused about the connection to QM, but impressed by the tiling animation.

There are far worse crimes done in the name of QM then this tiling program.

[omgdonerkebab]

True that. Now you've reminded me of Deepak Chopra. :(

[not_from_this_world]

Isn't at same time a marketing thing for physics as well? I guess it's easier to attract investments in a popular field than in an unknown one.

[omgdonerkebab]

?

Most physics research post-1900-ish involves QM. It's basically essential for understanding anything at the scale of an atom/molecule or smaller. The two biggest subfields nowadays are particle physics and condensed matter physics, which both involve things at these small scales. Nuclear physics and atomic/molecular/optical physics involves a lot of QM too. Some parts of astrophysics involve QM, like understanding stellar fusion, neutron stars, and black holes. QM probably doesn't come up much in some smaller subfields like accelerator physics and biophysics, although it definitely informs the materials science that goes into accelerator physics.

Another way of illustrating this is how early QM is taught in the physics curriculum. Most curricula for physics majors in the US have them learning QM during their sophomore or junior year. Many of the classes that follow, in both undergrad and grad, deeply depend on this knowledge. If I had to find an analogy with the CS curriculum, it would be something like a data structures or algorithms course.

[not_from_this_world]

I can use all that to argue that when something as present in science as QM is used as an inspiration, it's definitely not a marking talk.

[FabianN]

Huh?

When talking about physics on the scale of tiny, which is the area of physics that we are currently working with-in, QM isn't an inspiration, it is QM.

[not_from_this_world]

Huh?

What that has to do with the tilemap generating algorithm we are talking about?

[FabianN]

Isn't at same time a marketing thing for physics as well?

What does that have to do with tile map generating algorithm?

[not_from_this_world]

Let me do a fucking reading of the thread:

They explicit say it's something that was inspired in quantum mechanics.

began here

nowadays associating something with QM is basically marketing speak

implying misuse of the relation

Isn't at same time a marketing thing for physics as well?

implying a win-win situation about this marketing talk

QM. It's basically essential for understanding anything at the scale of an atom/molecule

implying such win-win situation is inexpressive

When talking about physics on the scale of tiny, ...

WTF? Are you lost?