10-25-2015, 03:03 PM
I have been interested in virtual worlds since reading the Traveller books way back last century. Since then I have been exploring some techniques for procedurally assisted generation of planetary surfaces and how to render them.
A few years back I came across OA when looking for Stanford Torus articles, and first discovered Iain Banks (Banks Orbital). Anyway, I have some bits of software that can make reasonable planets - mostly using gimp to generate the source and a fractal etch process to scramble the images.
This one is a guess at what his Fire Planet (Player of Games) might look like. The polar caps turned out quite nicely.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mej12btiskx0ih...2.png?dl=0
A few years back I came across OA when looking for Stanford Torus articles, and first discovered Iain Banks (Banks Orbital). Anyway, I have some bits of software that can make reasonable planets - mostly using gimp to generate the source and a fractal etch process to scramble the images.
This one is a guess at what his Fire Planet (Player of Games) might look like. The polar caps turned out quite nicely.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mej12btiskx0ih...2.png?dl=0
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