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Using GIS Tools and Data

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Astrographer

There is now a second part here… Recently(…-ish) I found something on the Zompist forum that I found interesting. Gareth3 was using an existing real world data(in this case, Stewart Island off of the southern tip of New Zealand) scaled … Continue reading →

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A Few New Things About Wilbur

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Astrographer

This post is just a quick aside about a few things I noticed about Wilbur while working on my last post. • Typically, when I want to show hillshade on land, but not on the water, I go through a … Continue reading →

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Creating Attractive Satellite-style Textures

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Astrographer

This post is going to be a short overview of a method for creating a plausibly-realistic and visually attractive satellite-view of a habitable planet. First, I run tectonics.js until I find an attractive arrangement of continental features. Or… just, you … Continue reading →

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Shield Volcanoes and Calderas

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Astrographer

Trying to come up with coherent advice for this fellow trying to create an island over on the Cartographer’s Guild, I ran across a sometimes successful method for creating a shield volcano with one or more calderas. This should be … Continue reading →

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Cratered Planets

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Astrographer

Today, we’re going to create a cratered world using noise in planetGenesis. This has been a headache for me for some time. The result is far from perfect. I don’t think I’d use it as an elevation map for ground … Continue reading →

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Wilbur on the Macintosh

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Astrographer

While the title sounds like a good name for a fictional English(-ish) village(the Macintosh River seems a bit un-English-y), I’m actually talking about getting Joe Slayton’s Wilbur program running on my Mac OS X-based computer. I’ve been using Boot Camp … Continue reading →

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Realistic Plate Tectonics with Tectonics.js

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Astrographer

For some time I’ve had an interest in terrain generation using simulated tectonic processes. I’ve successfully used PlaTec, but it’s strictly 2-d and the output is pretty limited. Another one that seemed promising was pytectonics, but since it froze my … Continue reading →

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More Work With Planet

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Astrographer

Last week I started working with Torben Mogensen’s planet heightfield generator. This week I’m going to continue on that vein a little longer. First off, we’ll start with a method to create a seamap image for our new world. Let’s start … Continue reading →

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Developing the Map of Shtakamashkan

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Astrographer

Since last time I’ve done a bit more work on the Shtakamashkan map. I created a better, although still not very good :|, temperature map in PlanetGenesis. I used the Y-value basis “noise” to start with(I’m not sure that has … Continue reading →

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More on Shtakamashkan – Using Masks

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Astrographer

So, after the last post, I have a full set of masks(not quite, I found I did need a highland mask, so I made a fairly unsatisfactory one), now what? In Wilbur, I started by creating a new map. In … Continue reading →

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