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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Chris Gray &lt;<A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>&gt;</LI>
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[Niklas Elmqvist:]

 &gt;The basics of fractal terrain generation are quite simple and can be
 &gt;contrived by just about anyone. Think "subdivision" and "recursion" and
 &gt;you're home free. What you do is that you start out with an empty
 &gt;matrix and initialize its corners to a random height. Then call the
 &gt;recursive subdivide procedure on the matrix, which will compute the
 &gt;average heights, plot them into the matrix and then call itself
 &gt;recursively on the four subsquares (there are many variations on this).

Yep. And, if you want your world to be a torus (wrapping around in both
directions), just start the four corners at the same value (like 0), and
it will work out.

-- 
Chris Gray     cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA


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<LI><strong><A NAME="00119" HREF="msg00119.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 04:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00121" HREF="msg00121.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 06:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00123" HREF="msg00123.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
Marc Hernandez <a href="mailto:marc#jb,com">marc#jb,com</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 07:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00122" HREF="msg00122.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 06:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00126" HREF="msg00126.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 14:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00127" HREF="msg00127.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 23:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00342" HREF="msg00342.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Thu 22 Oct 1998, 08:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00574" HREF="msg00574.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
Dominic J. Eidson <a href="mailto:sauron#morannon,kdi.com">sauron#morannon,kdi.com</a>, Thu 29 Oct 1998, 00:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00113" HREF="msg00113.html">[MUD-Dev] Terrain/Landmass &amp; GIF/BMP</A></strong>, 
quzah [sotfhome] <a href="mailto:quzah#softhome,net">quzah#softhome,net</a>, Wed 07 Oct 1998, 21:45 GMT
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