Libnoise
The libnoise site has made it onto my short list of awesome websites.
I’ve been obsessed with terrain generation for a long while now, and this is the best resource I’ve come across on generating landscapes using Perlin noise. The site is actually “just” the documentation for the eponymous libnoise C++ library, which is used to generate coherent noise. But in the course of documenting libnoise, the reader learns how to use coherent noise to generate landscapes. The quality of this documentation is rare, in that you can actually read it for the ideas, and ignore the minutaie of the code.
Checkout the example planetary heightfield!
Possibly relevant posts:
- A really crappy EIAS .img format loader for Mathematica (12/24/2009)
- My laziness (6/15/2003)
- Landscape generation (7/9/2007)