What is the limiting factor to water pooling in local minima, and is it worth simulating it?

In the current version of my generator I have rainfall generating rivers that flow downhill. Rivers that don't end at sea pool at local minima instead.

The next step for me is to allow for rivers to jump over local minima by pooling, overflowing, and then eroding. This poses the question: What should the maximum pooling depth be? A naive approach is to just set a maximum depth and not go beyond that. However, I am wondering:

1. What is the actual limiting factor to pooling depth in the real world? Is it water evaporation (which should roughly be a function of temperature and surface area), or something else like water seeping through aquifers? I know this is a factor sometimes, for example at the Rhine/Danube border.

2. Is it worth it in practice to use anything besides the naive approach of setting a maximum pooling depth?

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I made an infinite Pac-Man game! Link in comments to play!

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What is the process for animating and distributing stars in a spiral galaxy renderer, such as the one found at beltoforion.de (https://beltoforion.de/en/spiral_galaxy_renderer/), once you have drawn the rotated ellipses?
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Blending + procedural texturing for gameobjects in Unity

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We are thinking about changing the procedural world generation. What do you think?

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Advice for generating marble runs

Hi everyone!

I'm new to procedural generation and I'm currently working on a project to generate marble runs made from DUPLO-like building blocks. The idea is that you have few types of blocks of limited amount and you want to create one valid continuous track for the marble to follow. Ideally it will use most of the available blocks and look something like this:

https://preview.redd.it/p5bw4zoaj2ra1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=5a3f3a037d4746edba9fedb48e24c144453c4c23

I've been researching different approaches to this problem, but I'm not sure which one would be the best fit. At first I've considered using wave function collapse algorithm, but I'm concerned it would try to generate few small disconnected tracks like 2x2 loop etc. and the whole fixing of the track would be more complicated than using some method that would generate one continuous build from start. I've also looked into using grammars for generation and wondered if shape grammar could be used.

If you have any experience with similar problems or can suggest an approach that might work well for this project, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer.

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We need dancing gophers
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UML Is Fun! Pt. 2 - Activity Diagram

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An ode to the procedural road - procedural road generation demo

A preview of procedural road support in the procedural city / traffic side-project engine-editor: https://youtu.be/730rlJNRVhw

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Glitch Energy

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A Procedural World's Simulated Economy with Supply & Demand Heatmaps

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Turning curve functions into mountains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF9m-K_NCeI&t=152s

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This new AI music software is incredible

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2 experiments w/ depth (designs w/ cellular-automata)

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