Finally finished with the base of my road placement. Still some placeholder assets, but one step at a time. Thank you @boristhebrave.bsky.social for sylves, very easy to work with :) #indiedev #madewithunity #gamedevs

Isotropic Voronoi cells. I was trying to get a partition that feels a bit like how fields are laid out in the English countryside, it's not too far off.

Temperature is widely used in machine learning, but unexplored in procedural generation circles. It's an extremely handy global control over the generation's luck/creativity/variance. Article with interactive demo: www.boristhebrave.com/2025/05/07/f...

With apologies to Robert Frost.

Back to classic proc gen today. What ways are there of subdividing a rectangle? I enumerate the *irreducible* subdivisions, which imho are the most visually interesting. www.boristhebrave.com/2025/05/03/e...

New Article: I'm still investigating the intersection of AI and classical proc gen. This time, I look at text generation with Tracery combined with LLMs. www.boristhebrave.com/2025/03/08/t...

After decades of general python terribleness for packaging, I'm discovering uv is actually good? - fast - does things sensibly (defaults to npm style .lock files) - not dogmatic

New article, I tried using Stable Diffusion to make tiles for games. The trick is to generate all the tiles in parallel, so they can share edge information from each other. www.boristhebrave.com/2025/02/04/g...

I'll be at @unireps.bsky.social this Saturday presenting a new experimental pipeline to visually explore structured neural network representations. The core idea is to take thousands of prompts that activate a concept, and then cluster and draw them using MultiDiffusion. 🧵👇

I felt like writing a more personal blog post today. www.boristhebrave.com/2024/12/24/b...

Ha, I returned to my #procjam 2023 project which I gave up because it wasn't working, made a one line change, and now it does. www.boristhebrave.com/2023/12/03/g...

So far, I've implemented 6 different grids using this system. They're all "game ready" - they efficiently support all operations you are likely to want do do, such as adjacencies or cell picking. Let me know what tilings you'd like to see.

I've written up a new article on my implementation of aperiodic substitution tilings for my grid library, Sylves. www.boristhebrave.com/2024/11/30/s...

I've been getting increasingly into organising my life with Notion. I'm still tickled by the top note in my filing system, which describes the filing system, including itself.

I went with a friend on a double blind date. It turns out I was the placebo.

I list all my best projects in one convenient place: www.boristhebrave.com/projects/

Guy Walker's Stagecast pages were an amazing source of tiling information. Sadly, it seems to have gone down a year ago, so I've rehosted it on my own site so dead links can live on. Check it out, it's got many useful details and fun bits. www.boristhebrave.com/permanent/24...

Let's talk about my most popular project, Tessera. It's a Unity addon for generating levels. Basically, that means you create some tile assets that are designed to fit together like jigsaw pieces, and my algorithm intelligently assembles them into full levels. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkhR...

This is a cool result: There's a n-dimensional tile that aperiodically covers space via translations. But can't do it periodically. For 2d, there's no such tile. Low dimensions are still an open question. www.quantamagazine.org/nasty-geomet...

Today, I look at Quantum WFC, a new algorithm from Raoul Heese that extends the classical #WaveFunctionCollapse algorithm to real Quantum Computing devices. Cool stuff! www.boristhebrave.com/2024/11/03/q...

I've just published an article on how to do uniform point distribution in infinite spaces (also known as a Poisson Point Process) www.boristhebrave.com/2024/10/30/i...

I list all my best projects in one convenient place: www.boristhebrave.com/projects/

Hello BlueSky! I'm not dropping Twitter just yet, but drop me a follow. I'm a maths and procedural generation guy, making tools and tutorials for game dev. I'll be posting some of my past popular articles, projects and experiments here, so you can get an idea what I'm about.