Title: Mountain Post by: phiaera on April 22, 2012, 03:14:44 AM Anybody know the program/algorithm used for this fractal mountain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animated_fractal_mountain.gif Thanks Title: Re: Mountain Post by: Tglad on April 22, 2012, 07:48:27 AM 1. Take a flat triangle,
2. Stick a vertex half-way down each edge, creating a mesh with 4 times as many triangles. 3. Offset these new vertices by random(-k, k) vertically, where k is proportional to the horizontal length of the line that it sits on. 4. Goto 2 Title: Re: Mountain Post by: cKleinhuis on April 22, 2012, 01:15:58 PM check this out:
http://www.fractalforums.com/new-theories-and-research/my-bachelor-thesis-fractal-mountains-revisited/ Title: Re: Mountain Post by: asimes on April 22, 2012, 05:42:25 PM Where I learned to make fractal mountains: http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal.html The Square Diamond method mentioned there is very similar to what you showed but starts with a square instead. See how it turned out here: http://alexsimes.com/MountainGenerator/ |