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missingmatterboy points out this "interview with Dr. Ken "Doc Mojo" Musgrave, a computer graphics pioneer who worked with Benoit Mandelbrot generating fractal landscapes and who's designed custom shaders for Hollywood movies. His latest project is called MojoWorld and it uses the power of math to generate infinite-resolution fractal landscapes? one entire planet at a time. It's going to have an open SDK and, to top it all off, a Linux version is also in the works." This is a fascinating project.
Don't tell Slartibartfast.... (Score:5, Funny)
Sing it... (Score:2, Funny)
"I have the whole world, in my floppy"
A More Practical Application (Score:2, Funny)
One word: Starflight (Score:1, Funny)
Rolf Harris tells a joke about a lawyer from a long-established firm. Over the decades that he and his family had practiced law in the same building, the constant foot traffic over their doorstep had worn a big depression into the solid granite. So the lawyer had a stonemason come in and give him an estimate on a new doorstep. It came out to a lot of money. So our boy thought his best lawyerish money-saving thoughts, and came up with an idea. He said to the stonemason, "Well, how much would it be to not replace the stone but just flip it over? It's just a solid rectangular block, so nobody would be any the wiser if we got some wear out of the bottom as well as the top." And as it happened, that would cost rather less money. So that was what the lawyer decided to have the stonemason do.
So the stonemason goes to work, hammering and chiselling and doing all the usual activities of his trade, and then after about an hour the lawyer hears a knock on his door. He hurries to open it and there's the stonemason with a cheeky grin on his face, saying, "Yer grandfather thought of that fifty years ago!"
Fractal planet generators are indeed a good idea, but they're not so new as all that. Starflight, people, starflight.
Re:Excellent! (Score:2, Funny)
The Eternal Project - what an ironically true to form name