19 stories tagged procedural-generation, newest first.
135 points by ibobev | 20 comments
Blog post explaining an implementation of procedural tree growth based on Palubicki et al.'s self-organizing tree models, covering light competition, resource allocation, and foliage rendering.
219 points by maxilevi | 41 comments
GitHub repository for Project Hedra, a low-poly procedurally generated 3D open-world RPG and custom C#/OpenGL engine written by its author starting in high school.
58 points by ibobev | 2 comments
Catlike Coding tutorial, ninth in a Godot procedural GPU patterns series, showing how to make value noise tile seamlessly in a shader and wrap it around a torus.
138 points by ibobev | 18 comments
Blog post with an interactive visualiser explaining how NetHack generates Gnomish Mines levels using random fill and four passes of cellular automata.
51 points by networked | 23 comments
A design document by Gwern for Samon, a one-stroke Zen garden sand-raking puzzle game, covering rules, solver experiments, level generation, and a playable prototype.
70 points by bovermyer | 23 comments
Blog post comparing Western heraldry and Japanese mon as rule systems to inform building procedural visual-identity generators like Iron Arachne.
336 points by azhenley | 452 comments
Red Blob Games blog post on writing a function that picks 'a' or 'an' for procedurally generated English text, based on the word's spoken vowel sound rather than its spelling.
318 points by surreal_ | 91 comments
GitHub repository by PhiloLabs containing AI-generated 3D worlds built in code, including a Three.js digital twin of Union Square, San Francisco.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/31/71242a14-9dcc-4066-b2d2-286e6be2e374.jpg)
381 points by keithcarolus | 58 comments
YouTube video from Grow Now! Games showing a walkable ASCII-rendered cyberpunk city built in a single HTML file.
581 points by automatoney | 99 comments
An interactive write-up defining a custom color space for plausible, diverse skin tones, with a JavaScript color picker and a Python procedural generation algorithm.
571 points by delichon | 389 comments
Andrej Karpathy's X post describing Claude Opus 5 writing 5,500 lines of three.js code over two hours to procedurally render the opening of Lord of the Rings.
545 points by imadr | 82 comments
Article describing how the author built procedurally generated medieval hex-tile islands using Wave Function Collapse and WebGPU, with a live demo and source code.
569 points by linolevan | 185 comments
A blog post on the Sandbox Spirit site about how roads and intersections are designed and generated in games.
844 points by chris_overseas | 88 comments
Blog post by Will Morrison describing Marble Fountain, a procedurally generated, 3D-printed marble run art piece, with an accompanying video.
328 points by rofko | 80 comments
Layoutit Terra, an interactive generator that renders randomized isometric 3D terrain using only CSS, with a regenerate button.
828 points by iamwil | 115 comments
A blog post describing how the author built a spherical, Minecraft-style voxel planet, shown with a rendered blocky globe.
485 points by abdusco | 50 comments
A blog post explaining how the author built a JavaScript Space Invader Generator for a Creative Coding Amsterdam code challenge.
464 points by starkparker | 86 comments
Project page for faces.js, a JavaScript library that procedurally generates vector-based (SVG) cartoon faces, showing a grid of example avatars.
404 points by jimfx | 40 comments
A browser-based tool for procedurally generating and rendering 3D plants using a node-graph editor with adjustable parameters.