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One thing this misses is how to make plateaus: it uses a power law to make plains at zero altitude, but those end up getting flooded. Whereas real geography has
by taejo 11y ago
One thing this misses is how to make plateaus: it uses a power law to make plains at zero altitude, but those end up getting flooded. Whereas real geography has plains at sea-level, flat seabeds, high-altitude steppes/prairies, etc.
- a_e_k 11y agoThere was a nice recent paper in JCGT that dealt with using noise to model terrain. It does a nice job of creating gently rolling hills. Modeling Real-World Terrain with Exponentially Distributed Noise (http://jcgt.org/published/0004/02/01/ http://jcgt.org/published/0004/02/01/)