Plasma fractal landscape

[Tglad]

You might be interested in this, it is a software renderer I wrote which renders points (squares) rather than polygons. The landscape is built using a diamond-square plasma fractal and the rocks are built the same way.

<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=33709055&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=33709055&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>
(you can ignore my commentary).

You can play the demo on windows by downloading it here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8S7Si-yu3DoYzkxYTYwMjItZWQwYy00ZGNlLTk4MWQtM2UzMGZmMjY3OTRk&hl=en_US&pli=1

[knighty]

Nice one. Two things made me smile: The volcano and the edge of the world. 

[cKleinhuis]

ehrm, this looks like i have seen it before ... at first, the blocky structure jumps into the eye ... what size of pixels can reasonably be handled by nowadays gfx hardware ?
i believe it is cpu optimized ?

and the lod seems to jump, i mean, ýou "see" the jumps of the level of detail l..

funny is that the animation is level ov detailed as well, i mean the rocks that bump out of the volcano from far beyound ...

nice colision handling, and nice rotating of the rocks!


but the level of detail disappointed me when you reached the top of that mountain

well done!