Herringbone Wang Tiles (2011)

[ustad]

https://nothings.org/gamedev/herringbone/

[turtledragonfly]

One interesting application of this technique is how the world is generated in Noika: https://80.lv/articles/noita-a-game-based-on-falling-sand-si...

They found that the herringbone pattern hides the grid pretty well and cheaply, relative to other options.

They also credit Sean Barrett's prior work: https://nothings.org/gamedev/herringbone/herringbone_tiles.h...

[joshu → turtledragonfly]

noita is such an amazing, deep, and complicated game.

[dang]

Related:

Herringbone Wang Tiles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999392 - July 2014 (10 comments)