What is the difference between _Procedural Generation_ and _Random Generation_?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/179984
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05-11-2019 - |
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Today, I got into an argument about the term "procedural generation".
My point was that its different from "classic" random generation in that procedural generation is based on a more mathematical, fractal-based, algorithm leading to a more "realistic" distribution and the usual randomness of most languages are based on a pseudo-random-number generator, leading to an "unrealistic", in a way, ugly, distribution. This discussion was made with a heightmap in mind.
The discussion left me somehow unconvinced about my own arguments though, so, is there more to it? Or am I the one who is, in fact, simply wrong?
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