No Man's Sky Is Not Using Gielis' Superformula, But Sean Murray Wants To "Chat Maths" with Him

No Human'southward Sky fans have been a little worried after claims of patent infringement were outed in an interview by Dutch mag Telegraaf.

Equally y'all probably know, the universe of No Man's Sky is generated procedurally. According to Dutch visitor Genicap, Hello Games would be using the and then-called "superformula" created by a establish geneticist named Johan Gielis (likewise the founder of Genicap). According to Gielis, this equation is able to depict a vast number of life forms; you can find more about it here.

Eurogamer reached out to Genicap's Jeroen Sparrow, who provided the following statement:

Genicap is working on a projection to create revolutionary software based on the superformula that can be used also past indies and the major game studios.
Using the superformula to generate natural objects enables you to create endless varied and original objects such every bit trees, rocks, beaches, planets and mountains. Currently well-nigh of this piece of work is withal done manually. We are nevertheless in the conceptual stage. We expect to exist able to tell you lot more than in autumn.
It would be keen to exchange knowhow with Hello Games. We believe No Man's Sky is the starting time of a new generation of games. What Hi games did with the formula is very impressive. Johan Gielis, the founder of Genicap and the one who discovered the superformula, is extremely proud.
If Hullo Games used our technology, at some stage nosotros will take to get to the table. Nosotros have reached out to them but understand they accept been busy. We trust that we volition exist able to hash out this in a normal way.

All the same, Sean Murray begs to differ. He reassured fans of No Man's Sky that this is a non-issue as the game isn't fifty-fifty using the superformula in the offset identify.

He then added that he'd dearest to meet up with Johan Gielis to "chat maths".

No Man's Heaven doesn't actually use this "superformula" thing or infringe a patent. This is a non-story... everybody chill
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— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July 23, 2022

I wish Johan Gielis, the author, all the best in hereafter. We're going to meet and conversation maths once the game is out

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July 23, 2022