The Design and Implementation of Road Systems in Video Games

Not sure if it's just me, but I often get a primal satisfaction whenever I see intricate patterns emerging out of seemingly disordered environments.

Think about the galleries of ant colonies, the absurdly perfect hexagons of honeycombs, or the veins on a leaf. No architect, no blueprint. Just simple rules stacking on each other that result in beautiful patterns.

Humans do this too. And for me, one of the most fascinating patterns we've come up with is the roads.

Sometimes I imagine aliens from faraway galaxies discovering...