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Procedural magic books generator made for ProcJam2021

Controls:

• R or button on top to regenerate book
• H to show/hide UI
• B to change background color
• E to disable/enable post processing

Algorithm

The most important part of this generator - 16x16 glyph on book cover, is genereated by simple mazing algorithm that is restricted by binary mask. There are several different masks that give significantly different results, you can tweak them by changing Glyph placement mask slider. While slider there is at 0, mask will be random. Also, there is a chance, that corner pixels of the maze will be deleted, to make it look more smooth. Idea comes from Seeds magazine, Issue 1, p. 12.

In my implementation, more often than not, glyphs look pretty random, but if you generate something interesting, feel free to share.

The rest is purely random addition of bookmarks and frame. Colors are also mostly random, but I've tried to generate simple, complementary palettes for secondary objects.