Nov 10, 2022
Context, Framing, Flags
This generated flag by vividfax struck me as a good example of how context and framing matters in procgen. Without context these are a just abstract colors and shapes. With context, it's a flag generator. What pushes this over the top, though, is that this bot also tells us a meaning behind the symbolism.
I don't know how much intentionality is in the generation of the explanation of the symbolism, though I believe there is some; humans are overly good at pattern matching so you don't need a lot of intentionality. It's often, in my experience, a good idea to have some associations: generators have more character when there's a visible grain in their output. But you can get away with very little.