Wikipedia: An Evolutionary Resource

One of the most dangerous and attractive things about Wikipedia is its open nature.  Any user anywhere is allowed to make any edit, regardless of age or education.  This presents both a unique approach and a powerful, evolutionary resource.

Many users who create content for Wikipedia do so because they notice something that is missing in an existing article.  It was this way for me as well; I simply added content to an article that I felt was lacking.  In this case, it was an article about procedural generation, which happens to be a major component in my field.

The article presented an adequate discussion of the use of procedural workflow in games, and ignored its use in film, although procedural generation is more widely used in film.  I added a brief discussion of the use of procedural workflow in film, and then added some links that I felt were useful.  One of these links was to Terragen’s Wikipedia page, and the other was to Ken Perlin’s discussion of Perlin Noise.  Both of these are sites that I feel would be useful to a completely understanding of the subject.

~ by shinyaryart on September 27, 2007.