Just wondering what approach could be taken to create something like this procedurally.

https://www.clearbox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/qa.jpg [www.clearbox.co.uk]

Where you would have several words that would be dropped down at varying extrusion levels but nothing intersecting.

Some type of ‘recursive’ loop possibly where you have a ‘grid’ like battle ship, and you start with your biggest pieces first, then keep going until you've filled it all in.

Any ideas?

Hi,
eg. the “UV Layout” node does so called packing…
you could also do this actually quite nicely with a rigid body simulation…

Patterns and packing are a great topic.
https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/ [www.jasondavies.com]
many examples online some open source so you can study the various sollutions.

How you do it depends very much on a more detailed definition of what result you want exactly.
Does it have to be a perfect rectangular shape in the end. Or more a cloud shape.

Olaf