If you are interested in a far more terrain like generation, the link casually mentions Diamond-Square at the bottom, but I wrote a post a while back that goes

If you are interested in a far more terrain like generation, the link casually mentions Diamond-Square at the bottom, but I wrote a post a while back that goes into much deeper detail, after looking at one of Notch's ludum dare entries. http://www.bluh.org/code-the-diamond-square-algorithm/ http://www.bluh.org/code-the-diamond-square-algorithm/