How was "No Man's Sky" universe created?

 How small team of 20 programmers created universe 8 times bigger than Milky Way (400,000 light years to 52,850 light years)? When No Man's Sky was announced during their press conference at the Electronic "Entertainment Expo 2014", many gamers were skeptical, about making so complex and big universe. Developers from "Hello Games" were able to create their universe by using a lot of mathematical formulas. One of the main formula was "Superformula algorithm". That algorithm can create complex, biological shapes with a lot of curves with just a few parameters. This algorithm in No Man's Sky is responsible for variety of animals, plants, comments and stars. Another algorithm used in No Man's Sky is fractal equation. This algorithm can create complex fractal shapes. Fractal is an infinite shape, created by the same elements but with different size of components (Mandelbrot set is one of most famous fractal shapes). This 2 main algorithms and a lot more were able to create a technological masterpiece. This game is so complex from the programming side, that describing its mechanism would take few weeks.



Sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/artificial-universe-no-mans-sky/463308/

https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-algorithms-of-no-mans-sky-2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superformula

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbiór_Mandelbrota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Skyhttps://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Euclid_Size

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