Hierarchical Semantic Wave Function Collapse

Virtual worlds are rapidly increasing in size, enabled by advancements in computing technology, which puts a large burden on designers creating them.<br/>Procedural Content Generation can help alleviate this burden, though lacks precise control, to the detriment of designer intent. Some PCG algorithms, such as Wave Function Collapse (WFC), known...

APRON City: A new form of structuralism

System Design in the built environment is one of the most influential design paradigms in architecture and construction. This paper seeks to amalgamate empirical design strategies with various architectural principles, including the notion of “open buildings” or “open-ended architecture,” as well as Structuralism, all within a computational...

Exploring the Impact of a Procedurally Generated Environment on Immersion in Virtual Hyperbolic Space

Virtual Reality allows for the ultimate immersion in environments not naturally encountered. Still, hyperbolic environments are extremely difficult to get used to. This paper explores whether immersion in virtual hyperbolic environments can be enhanced by introducing a procedurally generated world. We propose a Wave Function Collapse (WFC)...

Designer Empowerment through mixed-initiative Wave Function Collapse

Wave Function Collapse (WFC) is a powerful generative algorithm, able to create locally-similar output based on a single example input. One of the inherent limitations of the original WFC is that it often requires users to understand its inner workings, and possibly make their own ad-hoc mods to achieve satisfactory results. Besides distracting...

Computing the Spectrum of the Confined Hydrogen Atom

This thesis is about the numerical approximation of the spectrum of the confined hydrogen atom. The energy levels and wave functions of the hydrogen atom are modelled by the corresponding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Schrödinger equation with Coulomb potential. At first different discretisation techniques for the hydrogenic Schrödinger...