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[darkhog]

DF is all about procedural generation for, well, everything. How about procedural generation of floor patterns when selecting multiple materials when building a floor. There are some great resources for that, completed with algorithms (and sometimes, even example code) so I wonder if this could be added. Then we could just select random materials and see what our dwarves will come up with instead of getting jumbled mess we get now.

[Salmeuk]

this is brilliant! I'm sure this has been also suggested before, but circular construction designation akin to the flow-designation of zones would be almost necessary. Only generating square patterns might feel incomplete.

I imagine that you could apply the same generation concept to walls: a long, straight line of 11 blocks with two colors might look like any of these:


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00000000000

00000000000

Ideally you would be able to save previously generated patterns, or perhaps be able to sample parts of an existing construction.

[Vattic]

It would be useful as decoration in different generated structures also.