Reticulating splines/Usage outside of Maxis games

List of usage outside of Maxis games

 * Can appear randomly in the loading screen for World of Goo levels
 * PocketSmith - a financial planning tool
 * At the point of check-out, when purchasing items from the Cards Against Humanity online store.
 * Mozy, a data backup program.
 * EA Sports Rory McIlroy PGA Tour 2015 video game.
 * Khan Academy, an educational website.
 * Udacity, an educational website.
 * As a splash screen on Minecraft, a first-person sandbox game.
 * While loading graph data on Google's Project Fi.
 * While loading lists in project management tracking software.
 * , a quiz website.
 * At the end of the installation process.
 * Hacknet, shown while first starting a game.
 * In the logfiles of OpenREPOSE Webfront end servers.
 * While loading in social media app Timehop.
 * While compiling (or Thunderbird) from source.
 * While loading the User Guide on a PlayStation 4 console.
 * Loading screens of Dead Space 3.
 * In an article by Martin Fowler, on the concept of Feature Toggles in software development.
 * Chip's Challenge 2 as the title of Level 43.
 * As text on loading screens on Two Dots.
 * When uploading products using WooCommerce CSV Import.
 * While compiling Cyanogenmod from source.
 * At the end of Docker Machine creation process.
 * Videostream for Chromecast has it as a loading text.
 * While loading a table in Roll20.
 * While loading past social media content in the mobile app Timehop.
 * While loading levels during the mobile game Two Dots [twodots.mobile].
 * The creative team behind PBS Idea Channel were referred to as "reticulated splines" during the credit sequence of their episode on The Sims.
 * The loading text on Wusoup.
 * When starting Bamboo server.
 * On the tech website The Verge whenever a poll is shown on the article, at the end the text will read "Reticulating poll splines".
 * When loading Kitomba takes longer than expected.
 * When loading Kerbal Space Program.
 * When loading the Timehop App.
 * While creating a bank account with Simple.
 * Reported during stat collections in the drone racing firmware RaceFlight.
 * When loading the When I Work mobile app.
 * When loading Discord.
 * During the packing process for an Android Open Source Project distribution.
 * When loading the editing window on The Sims Wiki.
 * When installing the Adobe Flash Player Projector on Mac OS.
 * When upgrading a Robotic HQ in Offworld Trading Company
 * When loading the Red Alert mod in OpenRA
 * When loading the map in Armello
 * When loading a map in Lego Worlds
 * When viewing the main loading screen of OZ: Hidden Kingdom, along with other Oz themed phrases.
 * When playing a quest in Disney's "Club Penguin Island".
 * During the Two Dots loading screen.
 * When loading the Mass Effect Andromeda: Apex HQ mobile app.
 * At the end of the instructions on how to deploy an app using AWS Amplify.
 * An idle message for Necron cities in Warhammer 40,000: Gladius.
 * Listed as one of the steps in the loading process of Cell To Singularity.
 * A region of Black Marsh is named the "Reticulated Spine" in The Elder Scrolls Online.