Ephemeria, the latest just-in-time procedural content experiment

The last few months I've been dabbling in procedurally generated content. My latest project is called Ephemeria, a just-in-time procedurally generated city.

I keep track of a 3 block radius around the player. The good thing is that the whole generation thing is repeatable. If you were to more 3000 miles in a random direction and come back, all the buildings would be the same. We can then keep track of any player- or script-induced alterations and replay them every time a block is re-generated.

I need to figure out what I want to use it for before digging too deep into improvements. For example, for a helicopter type of simulation I need to flesh out the roofs. For a racing sim, I need to get to work on the ground-level geometry. Either way, better building geometry is essential. 

It's here!

It's here! The PCB that I designed has arrived! Actually, it has been for a while now, I just have not had the time to write about it. It's an amazing feeling to open a package from the other side of the world to uncover something that you created yourself out of bit and bytes.