Unlike plate tectonics, computational climate simulation has an enormous body of research because of modern meteorology. Although we often we joke about incorrect weather forecasts, it’s pretty amazing how accurately we can model the entire atmosphere days in advance. With climate simulation we have the opposite problem. Modern Global Climate Models are so detailed that it’s […]
This isn’t a tutorial on Perlin/simplex noise. I just want to clarify some of the terms you may encounter in a noise library or on blogs discussing noise. If you are looking for a tutorial, check out adrian’s soapbox from whom I borrowed the images in this post or Google around for others. Perlin and […]
When I began researching tectonic plates, the first thing I learned was how little we know about them. It seems the main cause of our lack of understanding is that we simply can’t see tectonic plates. I find it strange and amusing that we can travel all over the world in hours, and we’ve reached […]