On: Notch on Euclideon: It's a scam

[superfx]

If I recall in the demo, they kept on referring to procedural generation, and so perhaps they have a few tricks up their sleeve for generating content (trees being an obvious example) that would be varied yet take up little memory.

[cheald → superfx]

Procedurally generated assets take very little storage. They still take just as much memory to actually put into the scene graph and render.

[skyfex → cheald]

Not with ray casting of sparse voxel octrees, which is probably what they're doing. Depending on how the procedural generation work, you only need to generate that which you render.

[wlievens → cheald]

Not if your assets are functional, such as a procedurally generated heightmap. Then they take up next to no memory.

But you can't do that efficiently for a tree, I think.