The Game of Life: Spore

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Originally Posted by Plain Old Jane

I've heard that word tossed around, procedural? what the hell does that and you mean? it sounds like a word dumb people toss around to sound smart, why not just say what you and it means?

other words like that: Proactive, synergistic, paradigm

maybe because procedural graphics is exactly what i mean? it is a method of creating 3D graphics on-the-fly as opposed to using a 3D modelling program like 3DS Max or Maya or Blender to create the geometry and texture information.

a procedure is a command, a function, or a calculation in the code, and procedural graphics uses procedures to generate graphics.

from what i understand of spore, they actually use procedures to generate procedural graphics. basically, the user, in some sense, gets to create the landscape.