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@aral whenever I turn off my Android TV, it turns itself back on after a few minutes and then turns off again a minute or two later. I presume it is listening because why else turn back on? We don't converse during the "restart" - just observe some moments of quiet reflection on the state of the world.

I would not know of the restart interval, except for the unusual way my TV audio is configured - instead of an HDMI connection to a soundbar, I have a bluetooth connection to a separate music system. When the bluetooth connection is made, the sound system announces the connection (not the TV).

@afreytes I think real terrains are fractal. I don't know much more about it than that - but you can often see it on coastlines - repeated patterns of points and bays along the north coast of a beloved island, or the repeated forking of tidal creeks are examples - while no two bays or forks are identical, they resemble each other, and slowly give way to some other pattern(s) over distance (so maybe that is where some kind of standing wave-pattern is used to describe which patterns are in force, and to what extent.

@afreytes in a game I have recently played, a dev mentioned that their scheme is to have a "wave function" - presumably some combination of sines, that creates a value at every point on the map corresponding to a likelihood of something - a spawn point, a food discovery, whatever. A discovery is enabled when a random roll at a time-step, exceeds the wave function at that point. There can be as many wave functions as food items, or as many as NPCs, they are not very complex functions. fwiw