procedural generation

collocation in English

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procedural
adjective
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/prəˈsiː.dʒər.əl/us
/prəˈsiː.dʒɚ.əl/
relating to a set of actions that is the official, legal, or accepted way of ...
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generation
noun
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/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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It has drawn wide attention for its massive scope, and its use of open-ended gameplay andproceduralgeneration.
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While software developers have appliedproceduralgenerationtechniques for years, few products have employed this approach extensively.
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However, the use ofproceduralgenerationcreated a few problems.
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It is influenced by roguelike games and usesproceduralgenerationfor parts of the game.
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Planet terrain, star systems and a galaxy will all be created usingproceduralgeneration.
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These programs often useproceduralgenerationto generate the landscapes.
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The location of these items is randomly determined through roguelikeproceduralgeneration.
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Proceduralgenerationis often disguised as compression in order to increase the amusement value.
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The city and events in the game are compiled throughproceduralgeneration, assuring each playthrough is unique.
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It uses star catalogs along withproceduralgenerationto create a universe.
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The data transmitted is very small only a couple of kilobytes per item transmitted due toproceduralgenerationof material.
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The snow effects were created using a technique calledproceduralgeneration.
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Wright noted that he hired a handful of demoscene programmers and artists because of their familiarity withproceduralgeneration.
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Fractals, an example ofproceduralgeneration, express this concept, around which a whole body of mathematicsfractal geometryhas evolved.
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Overriding theproceduralgenerationis the aim to create active dynamic pacing of the game by continuous monitoring of players, and altering the predetermined pacing to react to this.
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The use ofproceduralgenerationallows for a much larger universe to explore than similar programs; billions of galaxies can be explored, each with billions of stars, planets and moons.
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