many thanks... I have not committed too much learning time yet, as work has gotten strangely busy (unpredictably demanding, unpredictably lax, alternating), so what time I have had in the last month has been put to going through the Xeno Dream tutorials... and not much time at that. YET. A little on Apophysis every now and then, but very minimal, judging by what others have whipped up and presented here. Very inspiring, all, tho.

I noticed that when I used that UF derived image for Terragen mapping, it was composed of very high spikes, which would indicate very sharp color gradients, which is directly in line with what you mention about the number of colors. Like the difference between 1000 ft/300 m contour lines and 1 ft/.3 m contour lines on a topo map... that and reducing the ranges for max/min altitudes that the colors represent... might get to a more realistic land mass at some point. I do like the ability to take mathematically complex graphs (which is what fractals actually represent) and use them to render geographic-like scenes.

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