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This is a landscape/waterscape that originated with a fractal image derived from the original Mandlebrot set from Ultrafractal 4.x, then used that as a start image for Terragen. It took a LOT of manipulation and sculpting to gain even this amount of normalcy, and it really is a work in progress. You can possibly see the fractal pattern in the widening spiral with decreasing sized land elements above the water. Original image from Ultrafractal is in scraps [link] . Closeup of the center island ring: [link] .
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A little tidbit for you about ultrafractal... There is a coloring algorithm in the mjw.ucl folder called Direct Displacement Map... it can be used to create displacement maps with up to 16million gradient values for height.. instead of the usual 256 garnered from a bitmapped image... You may know about it already.. and if so.. disregard this.. but if not.. enjoy!
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Spite the universe.. Do you own thing!
Why not visit my wife's gallery? =SethraLavode
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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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"No matter where you go, there you are..."
"Fall down seven times, get up eight."
"When mundanity sings its song of dull, and days not interesting are, surreal tickles my brain to life again."
Regretably, I only had the chance to play with xenodream in it's infancy... and have as of yet to grab a copy of the newest one. I drool, but it's as far on the back burner as can be as far as budgeting goes... so I wait patiently... I have seen a lot of great shapes created with it.. especially on Renderosity.. many outlandish plant shapes that would fill an alien landscape like filling in a pie...
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Spite the universe.. Do you own thing!
Why not visit my wife's gallery? =SethraLavode
Proud Member of *Ultra-Fractal ~DeviousFractals *Apophysis
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