Generative Shan Shui landscape paintings

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/12/generative-shan-shui-landscape.html

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I could see a totally awesome update of Lords of Midnight or Doomdark’s Revenge being made with this.

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Here’s the original procedural generation code…

No, really, it has pages of the elements and how to group them and everything. No putting your pagoda half-way behind a mountain in that, like the example I saw.

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I imagine that electricity pylons would be frowned on too.

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Sorry, mind blown…that’s all I have at the moment…

Kinda reminds me of some work I did on proceduraly generated worlds (https://spiralcode.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/long-time-no-see-of-rivers-cartography-and-tiling/) … style wise …

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The fifth image I generated shows a building that has type on the roof. It says “Pizza Hut.”

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