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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. first fart? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or not?

  2. the shape of REAL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We're finding IT incredible, just how much data, can be stored/sorted/archived nowadays, by just one gaggle of self-trained snoops. Using only a few large HDDs, we've stored "the hysteria of the whole world" for the last several years, & still have enough 'free' space to store the inf. from several more worlds.

    hard to bulleave IT, but fud IS finally dead.

    give us a call, if we can store some stuff for you, or, if you'd like to run this roomy, picturesque, set of URLs.

  3. Re:The earth is in somebody hands for sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or a dunce cap...oh, wait...that's you!

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  5. Shut it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:Don't tell Slartibartfast.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A fjord bit my sister once...

  7. Re:Rebuild Planet Earth by Bob+McCown · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *sniff* Slartibartfast would be so proud!