How does one get started with procedural generation?

Question

Procedural generation has been brought into the spotlight recently (by Spore, MMOs, etc), and it seems like an interesting/powerful programming technique.

My questio

Answer 1

If you want an example of a world generator simulation plates tectonics, erosion, rain-shadow, etc. take a look at: https://github.com/ftomassetti/lands

On top of that there is also a civilizations evolution simulator:

https://github.com/ftomassetti/civs

A blog full on interesting resource is:

dungeonleague.com/

It is abandoned now but you should read all its posts