Reuse parts of outcome as constraints, and still obtain the same outcome? about wavefunctioncollapse HOT 5 CLOSED

The only problem is, given the same seed and its outcome, I cannot obtain the same outcome again

Please help me understand your question. By seed you mean a PRNG seed or seed as the constrained part?

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The only problem is, given the same seed and its outcome, I cannot obtain the same outcome again

Please help me understand your question. By seed you mean a PRNG seed or seed as the constrained part?

The same seed here mean 2 things: (1) The PRNG seed we feed to the WFC run remains the same. (2) Since the constrained seed for each tile is derived from the PRNG seed and tile index, we can guarantee those seeds are order independent as well.

The problem is weight probability has changed due to constraint propagation. So we can no longer obtain the same tile observation result.

My StackOverflow question might be better phrased:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62490854/order-independent-weighted-random-selection

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My StackOverflow question might be better phrased

I see. So you're trying to get the same result from 2 different constrained parts. Just interesting, why would you want to do this?

You can fix the order of observation. Or you can generate result from the first constraint, save this result, and use the choices from the save when generating from the second constraint.

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My StackOverflow question might be better phrased

I see. So you're trying to get the same result from 2 different constrained parts. Just interesting, why would you want to do this?

You can fix the order of observation. Or you can generate result from the first constraint, save this result, and use the choices from the save when generating from the second constraint.

Imagine this workflow: generate a texture, pick a part of it as constraint, use them to generate again.

Preferably, you want the 2nd result to remain the same, and then you change the seed to get different output.

But in reality the 2nd result won't match, because constraints reduce entropy, so we cannot obtain the same result even though we know it's one of possible solution.

So yeah, it looks like I need to save some more information.

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Imagine this workflow: generate a texture, pick a part of it as constraint, use them to generate again. Preferably, you want the 2nd result to remain the same, and then you change the seed to get different output.

I see. Yeah, the simplest solution would be to just save the first result, or save the order of observation.

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