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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. /.ed already! by merlin_jim · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the Google cached copy (which isn't doing much better)

    If you have to see the images, BryceWorld got a beta release and posted a gallery of images online.

    And if you want to download it immediately to start playing with it, you can do it by filling out this questionairre

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  2. Re:Old news... by malducin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the thing is Ken Musgrave is one of the pioneers, if anything a lot of people that have posted code like this out there are based on Ken's numerous papers. He was a researcher with Mandelbrot, kinda developed "multifractals", given SIGGRAPH courses about terrain and procedural modeling, and has written several chapters for a great book "Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural; Approach". He also worked for a time for or at Digital Domain, doing code a for the moon on Apollo 13, and procedural smoke for Dante's Peak (not used) and Titanic.

    Here is his webpage:

    Ken Musgrave's website

    Saw Mojoworld briefly at SIGGRAPH and it looked neat.