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Wondering too. It does look like it though. It has that noisyness / fuzziness that makes it sometimes a bit too random compared to earth continents. I found tha
by AStrangeMorrow 3y ago
Wondering too. It does look like it though. It has that noisyness / fuzziness that makes it sometimes a bit too random compared to earth continents. I found that it works best for earth like map simulations (with water basically) when combined with some terrain physics (moving plaques of random sizes and other geological elements) to generate the high level details, and Perlin on top for the natural noisiness. For other planets though it does great.
- hermitcrab 3y agoPerlin noise (with octaves) can generate quite natural looking terrain height maps. But it doesn't simulate natural processes such as wind and water erosion and plate techtonics. For example, plate techtonics tends to create mountains ranges in lines (such as the Himalayas and the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge) rather than completely randomly. So I guess that is going to limit just how natural it can look, especially over the scales that these natural processes operate.