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    • Sarahundefined
      Sarah
      last edited by admin

      Nonsense technobabble used in a production context.
      [Reticulating splines] started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a real meaning, this definition isnt actually correct in the context of its use. Its really a programming joke.
      Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Dont want to describe whats holding up the program? Its [reticulating splines]. Why isnt the Internet working? The [splines] arent [reticulated]. Heck, dont want to explain your calculus assignment? Were reticulating splines this week.
      See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.

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      • Lanellundefined
        Lanell
        last edited by admin

        v.
        A necessary computation performed by numerous [Maxis] Sim games. Content simply cannot be generated without [meticulous] reticulation.
        See: reticulatingsplines on [ytmnd] for further information.

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        • Luis Fokundefined
          Luis Fok
          last edited by admin

          The process of combining many short lines and [curves] into longer, interpolated ones called [splines].
          Also, the process of combining many imprecise and [abstract] ideas into one larger, complex one.

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          • Couch Potatoeundefined
            Couch Potatoe
            last edited by admin

            [Constructing] network based functions that are defined by [divisible] intervals while approximating said network and composing it of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals and joined at their endpoints with a suitable degree of [smoothness].

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