Fit An Entire Planet In 90k

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 9, 2001 @11:54PM 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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Bill Gates was right by Sideways+The+Dog · 2001-10-10 02:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wow, Bill Gates was right. 640K of memory really is enough for anybody.

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Ihara-grub algorithms, anyone? by cryptochrome · 2001-10-10 03:07 · Score: 1, Redundant

Forget planets, what we need are algorithms that can generate everyday objects like people.

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