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Fit An Entire Planet In 90k

Posted by timothy on from the really-neat-stuff dept.

missingmatterboy points out this "interview with Dr. Ken "Doc Mojo" Musgrave, a computer graphics pioneer who worked with Benoit Mandelbrot generating fractal landscapes and who's designed custom shaders for Hollywood movies. His latest project is called MojoWorld and it uses the power of math to generate infinite-resolution fractal landscapes? one entire planet at a time. It's going to have an open SDK and, to top it all off, a Linux version is also in the works." This is a fascinating project.

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  1. Don't tell Slartibartfast.... by jgerman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he took real pride in his fjords, he wouldn't take too kindly to auto planet creation.

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  2. Sing it... by GarryOwen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on everybody and sing....

    "I have the whole world, in my floppy"

  3. A More Practical Application by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Funny

    All we need now is for someone to encode all the world's pr0n in this fashion and put it on gnutellanet!

  4. Re:Excellent! by Alioth · · Score: 2, Funny
    > The Eternal Project http://compsoc.net/~flend/tep/


    The Eternal Project - what an ironically true to form name ;-)

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