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Article #940Re: World Design (maps)
From: Michael Polis
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:21
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:21
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There was one of these in the USML (Universal Simulation Mailing List) archive, which apparently no longer exists. I have a copy of the program, which was called plates.c, but I have hacked on the copy I have, so I'd rather not distribute it. Problems I had with the program were 1) The initial plates were polygonal (the voronoi polygons of a random point set), which did not look good. 2) If I ran the simulator long enough to grind off the vertices, I got oceans full of so many little isands that ocean crossings would be trivial. 3) Erosion was just wrong. I got one mountain that was 2 or 3 times the height of Everest. Also, eroded material didn't really go anywhere. Here is the comment from the beginning of the program: /* * A program to simulate tectonics. * * Copyright 1988 by Mark Isaak. * You may distribute this however you like, as long as you don't sell it * and you keep this notice in it. * * Wish list: * Do it on a sphere, not a square torus * Give plates angular momentum * Make some constants variable * Horsts and grabens * Let 2 plates fuse together and/or 1 plate split apart sometimes * Astroblemes * Take density of rock into account */
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Newsgroups: rec.games.design Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!gatech!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!MAPS.CS.CMU.EDU!mfp From: mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis) Subject: Re: World Design (maps) Message-ID: <C0JsBA.7Gz.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: maps.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University References: <19376@mindlink.bc.ca> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:21:09 GMT Lines: 31