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- S C E N E R Y - Public Domain
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- Planetary architecture is a complicated business. What with mountains,
- ravines, valleys and lakes, creating a whole new world can be a tiring
- task indeed. If you're a would-be god or goddess and you're starting
- to find this creation lark is taking it out of you then let your Amiga
- do the job for you.
- Scenery is a program that uses some very complicated
- mathematics to create some very interesting results. The program uses
- Fractal graphic techniques as used by super computers such as the Cray
- to create random landscapes of almost unbelievable realism. Fractal
- techniques are used extensively within the film industry to create
- graphics for sci-fi films such as Star Trek. If you've seen any of the
- more recent sci-fi films, chances are that the asteroids and other
- planetary objects within these films were created on a super computer
- using fractal graphic techniques.
- The landscape generation takes a seed value which can either
- be randomly generated or chosen by the user. Other options include the
- ability to increase the height of the 'camera' from zero right upto
- 8000 feet. The water level and the height of mountains and hills can
- also be selected from the pull down menus.
- LandScape generation is reasonably fast when you consider the
- Earth took millions of years to get to its current state! Seriously
- though, the generation time of a landscape is actually very fast and
- can take as little as five minutes for a scene to be rendered due to
- efficient programming in pure 68000 assembler. Once a landscape has
- been created, selecting Save Screen from the project menu will save
- the screen in IFF format. Once saved, these can now be loaded into a
- paint package such as Deluxe Paint or Aegis Images.
- You can load LandScape either by selecting it from our cover
- disk menu program, Click_Me or by alternatively clicking on its icon
- on the Workbench.
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