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Voronoi.
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Why Are Voronoi Diagrams Everywhere in Procedural Generation?
Fantasy map generators, cellular noise, Minecraft biomes and destruction effects all keep returning to the Voronoi diagram. This post covers its definition and history, its duality with the Delaunay triangulation, point distributions and Lloyd relaxation, where it is and is not used, and its pitfalls, checked against primary sources, an in-browser lab and benchmarks I ran myself.
Fantasy Map Generator Architecture: How Does One Seed Become Continents, Nations and Markets?
Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator builds a whole fantasy world in the browser: terrain, climate, rivers, cultures, states, roads and an economy. I followed its 40-step generation pipeline through the code, generated maps myself, and checked each stage's output, its run time, and whether the same seed really gives the same world.