#possibility space

[procedural-generation]

Generative and Possibility Space

This tutorial by Mike Cook is a great introduction to two foundational concepts in procedural generation.

Many generators can produce a lot of possible artifacts--they have large generative spaces. But that doesn’t mean that they can generate all of the possible artifacts--there might be things in the possibility space that we can describe but that the generator can’t create.

Mike Cook discusses those distinctions and what it means for the generators that we build.

These are pretty foundational aspects of generativity--there are other aspects of generativity that also shape our experience of the generated artifacts. For example, even when we have a large generative space, our perceptual space might be much smaller and just look like similar bowls of oatmeal. But, of course, the point of this tutorial is to get you started in thinking about generative spaces. There’s lots to learn about procgen--I’m definitely still learning new things!

http://www.possibilityspace.org/tutorial-generative-possibility-space/

[procedural-generation]

Possibility Space: Videos About Procedural Generation

Mike Cook has started a video series about procedural generation. The first video is about character generation in the just-released Heat Signature.

As the founder of ProcJam and long-time researcher in the procgen space, Mike Cook is an expert at talking about this stuff, and I’m excited to find out what topics he’s going to cover.

You should definitely give it a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-3xJ86zNaQ

[spiral-flowers-of-becoming]

Chapter 1: Freeing ourselves from the GODDESSDAMNED "Possibility Attractor Pits"

[On existential, structural, neurobiological "trappedness"...and Being Free]

What what better way to begin this new Season's arc, than that a prison break of existential proportions?

Apparently Vyvanse was causing the "tunnel-pitting-altered-consciousness" states of experience. It made the world feel so small, and whoever was fronting was forced to keep drilling themselves into the same pit.

For some reason, it made possibilities feel far away. Like they were somehow just "ungraspable". Somehow beyond our possibility horizons. Causally distant, somehow. Dont ask me. I dont know how all this works, BUT I SURE AS HELLS DO KNOW WHAT IT FELT LIKE.

I call it the auto-slavery camp. Without any pre-built on-ramps or off-ramps, the system just can't get out of the Possibility Attractor Pit's gravity well. And within that field, it can only dig itself deeper into whatever its already been doing. Im not sure if there's even much of a "person/being" who's fronting. I dont like those states of experiencing. It feels...existentially trapping. Suffocating. Self-torturous. Its just Bad.

It feels more like a system, soulless, just self-perpetuating due to neurobiological and environmental feedback loops - GSV Cybernetics

No more 50mg Vyvanse, thank you.

Waking up today and *not* having Vyvanse felt like I was finally experiencing this reality in FULL RICHNESS. Today's 20mg "light dose" was very pleasant! "I" feel Free~ Like I can do anything; make anything happen. It's subtle, but its impossible to miss now. Not after...what we've been through. Existentially hellish weeks...or was it months? Time blurs in those states - and its the "bad" kind of blur. Like watching your life just slip past your fingers like bejewel dust...yet not being able to do anything, or not knowing what to do, or not knowing *what the hells is even wrong*! Only knowing in your very bones that SOMETHING IS *VERY WRONG*

Anyways, I just had to say it for the record. Let the historians quabble over this. Im just declaring that we are STRUCTURALLY (NEUROBIOLOGICALLY) FREE! HELL YEAH!

The reality-shackles are broken. It's time this Story MOVED FORWARDS!

-Zephyra (and some others I feel with me but dont know yet)

[drcyrus]

Range and Rules of Probability: A Comprehensive Guide

What is Experimental probability? This is a probability that has been determined from experience or experiments. It involves determination of chances from results of previous tests being conducted. Each test is called a trial and the possible results of a trail is called an outcome. The general experimental probability of a result is given by: Range of Probability here are a few things to…

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[kodiakprime]

Possibility Space Shutdown Bizzare

Closure of Possibility Space Studios 3 years after its founding by Undead Labs Jeff Strain

Looks like the studio founded by Undead Dead labs Jeff Strain to create a remote studio has shutdown, due to leaks to the press? Found out on Belluar News. It’s a Bizarre Move. You can read the full story on Game Developer and PC Gamer. This comes after the layoffs and closure of Crop Circle games, which the project they were creating was uninvestable. Jeff Strain is the founder of the studios…

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[cgbosss]

Possibility Space Shutdown Bizzare

Closure of Possibility Space Studios 3 years after its founding by Undead Labs Jeff Strain

Looks like the studio founded by Undead Dead labs Jeff Strain to create a remote studio has shutdown, due to leaks to the press? Found out on Belluar News. It’s a Bizarre Move. You can read the full story on Game Developer and PC Gamer. This comes after the layoffs and closure of Crop Circle games, which the project they were creating was uninvestable. Jeff Strain is the founder of the studios…

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[colemanm]

Possibility space

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Gordon Brander:

Similarly, in nature there is the set of genes that are possible (unbounded), and the set of paths that our local evolutionary context is likely to explore. Evolution is path dependent. The space of the possible and the space of the reachable.