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From: musgrave-forest@cs.yale.edu (F. Ken Musgrave)
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Subject: Re: Fractal Lanscapes.
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Date: 24 Nov 90 12:51:23 GMT
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  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
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