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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. The galaxy in the palm of your hand by MBCook · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow! Now I can carry a floppy with me and over 15 planets! OK, so floppy's are passe, but who needs to carry a CD with 7200 planets on it? This seems impossible but I guess since it's nothing but fractals who's equations take up a couple of dozen bytes each, it does make sense. Oh well. Now on to a realistic part of my message:

    <SARCASM><RANT> They can put a dozen planets on a disk but they can't figure out cold fusion! What's the world comming to?</RANT></SARCASM>

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    Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
  2. 90K! by TeVi · · Score: 2, Troll

    Wow, 90K!

    I bet a 'make world' will go a lot faster then :-)