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From: flatline@weedeater.uucp (Ken Musgrave)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanted: Landscape Alogrithm
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Date: 3 Apr 89 22:27:33 GMT
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In article <8904010007.AA04009@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) writes:
>    I am looking for Landscape Alogrithm similar to  Star Trek II's
>genisis techology. I want to know the Alogrithm that will simulate drawing
>mountains, rivers, oceans, islands, and many things around the artifical
>world and packed them into sphere. Is it avaliable in books or can you send
>me the alogrithm (or programs)? Also, it is avaliable on anonymous FTP?

  See "The Science of Fractal Images", a recent Springer Verlag book.
It's widely available, where not sold out.  And it has everything a poor 
boy could want to know about fractal terrain models.  Except, of course,
what's to come, such as in this summer's SIGGRAPH proceedings (a hint for
all fractal fiends...)

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