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by bhickey 521 days ago
> I've changed from calling it WFC to Model Synthesis; Paul Merrell earned the naming rights, unless we discover an even earlier description.

Wang Tiles, 1961. The WFC algorithm is just one way to generate a tiling. I haven't done a literature search but I'd be surprised if there isn't a materially identical paper with decades of priority.