/Procedural-Landscape-Generation-on-Sphere-Surfaces

Did you ever wonder how to procedurally generate landscapes on spheres? Well, let me show you!

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What is this?

I came up with this algorithm one day on my way home from work. Not knowing whether it'd work, I felt that I had to try and implement it to see its effect. I really liked the results, so I wrote a short paper on it in case anyone wants to implement it or build upon it further. 🤓 There's also a demo included, written in JavaScript/WebGL!

Click here to read the paper.

Running the demo

  1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/philiparvidsson/Procedural-Landscape-Generation-on-Sphere-Surfaces.git
  2. Navigate to the demo directory and run index.html.

Your browser should display a sphere in 3D. The sphere mesh is very high-resolution so give it a few minutes to complete (the sphere will stop morphing when it's done).

Click here to run the demo.

Video

Here's a video of the algorithm being applied to a low-resolution mesh in real-time:

Procedural Landscape Generation on Sphere Surfaces