Stages as recipes: Endless Powder composes terrain mathematically, not from static assets
sterlingcrispin · x · 2026-10-22
sterlingcrispin explains that each Endless Powder stage is a recipe combining some or none of six landform elements, built mostly with math rather than static assets — yielding everything from big-park stages on steep ridgelines to cliff-filled valleys.
Diagrams show six landform types joined smoothly via a continuous field with shared cubic B-spline controls, a classifier naming local terrain by slope and curvature, and shared route descriptors organizing corridors, forks and names downstream of the landscape.
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