Posted November 17, 2021 by watabou
Neighbourhood Generator is here. Here is a recap of the previous post on the topic:
"Recursive bisection with a twist" is a modification of simple recursive bisection which is a better fit for creating city blocks because a) it produces more natural-looking junctions and b) its simple recursive nature is less visible for the naked eye. I was going to implement this method in the city generator, but at that moment (half a year ago) it wasn't polished enough - too slow and too unstable. To see how it would look I've made an app that generated relatively small patches filled with streets and buildings using those "bent cuts" - this is where the idea of "neighbourhood generator" came from.
The new generator is an improved (created from scratch) version of that original neighbourhood generator with a better implementation of the bisection idea and with better visuals. Here are my unsorted comments as a bullet list: post…