Landscapes & Heightfields

[Leon Pennington]

Hi,

I've been reading the Mailing list then sent off a e-mail to Andreas before I 
got to the bit about his holiday, but anyway...

I've been writing landscape generating code for a while, and was wondering if 
any of my stuff would be useful for the Modeller.

I use the ROAM algorithm to reduce the drawing needed by my programs and 
though this would be perfect for Heightfield display in KPovModeler. I've 
been messing with my code and worked out different ways of doing things to 
fit with the points and lines of the Modeller as well as the specific needs 
of the ROAM algorithm. It can adjust the amount of lines displayed while 
trying to preserve as much info as possible, its pretty quick and its memory 
usage can be kept to a minimum. I've knocked up a quick and nasty example.

Also looking through the talks about Plug-ins the Landscape generation I've 
been working on could be put to use there. I've been using everything from 
Plasma too Perlin noise.

What do you think?

Leon