{"id":9872,"date":"2016-12-20T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:20:22","slug":"generate-your-own-random-fantasy-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9872","title":{"rendered":"Generate your own random fantasy maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMartin O’Leary not only made a cool fantasy map generator<\/a>, he’s giving away the source code and has described the process at a high enough level for an idiot like me to partly understand how it works.<\/p>\n

I wanted to make maps that look like something you’d find at the back of one of the cheap paperback fantasy novels of my youth. I always had a fascination with these imagined worlds, which were often much more interesting than whatever luke-warm sub-Tolkien tale they were attached to.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I wanted to play with terrain generation with a physical basis. There are loads of articles on the internet which describe terrain generation, and they almost all use some variation on a fractal noise approach, either directly (by adding layers of noise functions), or indirectly (e.g. through midpoint displacement). These methods produce lots of fine detail, but the large-scale structure always looks a bit off. Features are attached in random ways, with no thought to the processes which form landscapes. I wanted to try something a little bit different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an odd feeling to look at these instantly-generated, detailed maps and realize that they represent nothing. I feel like I’m being wasteful pressing the "Generate high resolution map." The Uncharted Atlas<\/a> is a twitterbot that posts a new map every hour.<\/p>\n

from Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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