geo

Geology experimentations to be introduced in ViaRE.

Landmass—first methods

Generate a map divided in multiple areas that are either land or water first, and modify the heights of each area later.

Radial wave projection

• Choose a point in the map
• Generate a wave w, made from the overlap of multiple waves.
• Sweep around the point using the values from w to set a radius.

//TODO: Implement something inspired by this idea in any framework//

Growing trees with particles

• Create a particle at a random point in the map.
• Make the particle move around.
• When a particle is old enough, it may reproduce into n particles.
• When a particle is old enough, it dies, registering its last position.
• Draw a concave hull of the points left by the particles.

//TODO: Implement something inspired by this idea in any framework//

Polygon multi distortion

• Generate an irregular polygon.
• Distort each edge as a vibrating string (like a guitar string being played).
• Fix the points of intersection between the distorted edge before and after the distortion.
• Distorted edges cannot cross to the other side of the original edge.
• Repeat.

//TODO: Implement something inspired by this idea in any framework//

Heightmaps—first methods

Generate heightmaps and then decide the threshold that divides land from water.