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Terrain Generation 4: Plates, Continents, Coasts

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Note: This post and the next will reference the faults and plate tectonics described in my tectonic research post. I’ll also assume you know the basics of simplex noise. I posted a quick rundown of some noise terms earlier. Mountain formation from faults involves some pretty complicated 3D physics. This video starting at 1:28 has a […]

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Terrain Generation 3: Voronoi Diagrams

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I decided to use Voronoi cells to model tectonic plates. Let me clarify that I am generating one Voronoi cell per tectonic plate. I am not using Voronoi cells as polygonal map tiles as Amit Patel did in his polygonal map generator. I am generating a small number of large Voronoi cells as tectonic plates, […]