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No Man's Sky uses fancy maths to generate its infinite, procedurally-generated galaxy. But is the maths Hello Games used to build the game its own creation?In 2003, a Belgian plant geneticist named Johan Gielis published an equation that can describe a large number of natural forms, such as starfish, spiderwebs, snowflakes and even crystals. He called this equation the superformula.
In short, the superformula can be used to describe many complex shapes and curves that are found in nature. The video, below, describes it in much more detail, if you're interested.
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