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 Asana.
• Sporcle, a quiz website.
• At the end of the Ubuntu 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 Firefox (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.