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Graphics researchers have created a GPU-run procedural algorithm for creating an equivalent 35.6 GB worth of trees, leaves, and brushes from just 52 kB of data (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

... yeah? L-Systems are sixty years old.

Drives me up the fucking wall that procedural content is still treated like some novel secret. Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped on two entire Blu-Ray discs despite being set in the wild west. Half of that had to be textures. That is thirty gigabytes of dirt. Just dirt and wood and rocks and a sprinkling of human skin for flavor.

When .kkreiger dropped, I figured the whole damn industry would take the hint, and pivot to itty-bitty textures defined by rules. Nope! More artists, fatter bitmaps, crunch crunch crunch crunch. I'd suspect deliberate exclusion of competition by maintaining high budgets, but I don't believe executives are that smart or that organized.