Generating Ancient Ruins

Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

While creating algorithms for random continent generation, I came across an old algorithm I had worked with called Coupled Map Lattice. Using that to create a continent was hard but I was able to accomplish it doing layers of filters:

generate map with noise between -1 and 1
apply CML using Spatiotemporal Intermittency settings

(a = 1.75, ε = 0.6)

I found that using something too chaotic didn’t have a noticeable affect compared to just generating noise in general.

normalize values to between 0 and 255 apply a gaussian blur normalize values to between 0 and 1 apply slight height restrictions based on distance to center of map

Ruins on Nathaniel Inman

Generating Ancient Ruins