ms2@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Shelley) (11/24/90)
Does anybody have any useful code for doing fractal landscapes/trees/plants. Also, any information on rendering the landscapes would be useful. I'm just starting to cover this sort of stuff, but my maths is not too hot. The setup here, is X11R4 on either HP 9000 series 3 or Sun 3 workstations. Cheers, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Martin Shelley email: ms2@doc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing Imperial College Dog and Bone: +44 71 373 6127 London SW7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Why do they call me MASh? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job? A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.
musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave) (11/24/90)
I recommend the Rayshade ray tracer for making nice renderings. It sports the height field primitive. And it has the noise() function in it, which you can rip out and use to make terrain models. Get Rayshade via anonymous ftp at weedeater.math.yale.edu and read "The Synthesis and Rendering of Fractal Terrains" in the SIGGRAPH '89 proceedings. That should keep you busy for a bit! Ken -- The Fundamental Dilemma of Existentialism: Eschew obfuscation. Ignore alien orders.