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The ocean in Final Fantasy IX is made of Wang tiles
by jawnston·Jul 6, 2026·3 points·1 comment
AI Analysis
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Byte-verified reverse engineering reveals FFIX ocean uses only 3 shades across 3,583 tiles.
Strengths
- •Days of byte-level archaeology recovered rotation data that naive reconstruction missed.
- •Interactive demonstrations let readers slide between textures and shade maps.
- •Measured adjacency rules prove Sea3 and Sea4 never touch—Sea5 always bridges.
Weaknesses
- •Niche audience—only matters if you care about PS1 graphics or Wang tiles.
- •Single-game analysis limits broader applicability of the technique.
Category
Target Audience
Game developers, graphics programmers, and retro gaming enthusiasts
Post Description
made a fun little website with AI to explain how the Oceans in FFIX are authored after days of slamming my head against the keyboard trying to deconstruct it
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