Re: Is this list still alive?

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Chris Purnell wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:41:12AM +0200, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> 
>> One way, which is quite common, is to use "fractals" to generate the
>> height curves for a map. Well fractals are just plain wrong here, plain
>> recursion is what it really is.
>
>[ Algorithm description deleted. ]
>
>I do something much less complicated.  I use gforge to create a pgm
>hightmap.  I then have a very simple tool to convert the pgm into
>one of my map files.

Isn't that a GTK application? I tried to try it once a few years ago (if
it's the same application), but it was more hassle to try to get GTK
compiled and installed than to write an own tool for the terrain
generation. Today I think the situation is a little bit easier.

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Jan 'Chakie' Ekholm |     Balrog New Media    http://www.balrog.fi/
   Linux Inside     | I'm the blue screen of death, nobody hears your screams


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