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That would be interesting. I had a quick look and found this paper, they simulate tectonic plate movement for terrain generation: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler

• arethuza 12y ago
  Actually, it just occurred to me that what would be really cool would be a geology version of the Star Walk app - you point it at the ground/hill/mountain and it shows you what its made up of. Explaining the history of features would be even cooler :-)
  • augustl 12y ago
    And imagine if you had a game that generated terrain by erosion + tectonic plate movement, and you got to see a visualisation of that as it was generating :) 2 billion years of geological activity, simulated in a minute-scale.
    • mkesper 12y ago
      42!