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AARUG UK #01 (1989-10)(Amiga Amateur Radio User Group UK)(PD)[m].zip
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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.