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fracplanet

fracplanet is an interactive application for generating and viewing random fractal planets and terrain with oceans, mountains, icecaps, and rivers. These can then be exported as models to POV-Ray or Blender, or as textures to other applications. It uses Qt and OpenGL.

Tags multimedia Graphics 3D Modeling
Licenses GPL
Operating Systems POSIX Linux
Implementation C++

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  • Rrelease-mid
  •  21 Apr 2007 14:11
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Changes: Updates were made for Debian Etch and Ubuntu Edgy. No new program functionality was added.

  • Rrelease-mid
  •  16 Jul 2006 13:04
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Changes: The main addition in this release is the ability to export the terrain as a texture map, with or without relief shading. A DEM (Digital Elevation Model, or height field) and normal map are also written. For planets, the textures are a cylindrically projected latitude/longitude map (this is directly usable as a spheremap in POV-Ray). The illumination direction is now controllable from the GUI, and swirly spiral weather systems can be added into the clouds.

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  •  09 Apr 2006 13:01
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Changes: Now also builds .debs for Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Breezy (available from sourceforge). There is little reason for users with a working 0.3.0 to upgrade: one minor GUI improvement, and the random number generator switches to use the boost mt19937 implementation. For those building the code themselves, please note that the boost C++ library is now required ("libboost-dev" package on Debian).

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  •  20 Mar 2006 17:08
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Changes: This version adds the ability to export meshes to Blender, the option of generating a layer of clouds, control over the viewer window's background colour, and some built-in documentation.

  • Rrelease-mid
  •  04 Apr 2005 01:18
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Changes: Multiscale Perlin noise is now provided as a terrain generation option. River generation was improved, particularly with regard to memory consumption and feedback to the user when the formation of large lakes stalls progress.

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Rcomment-before 23 Jan 2005 02:20 Rcomment-trans gdesigner Rcomment-after

Nice!
What a great program! Very short learning curve too. You get results almost immediately.

Many thanks to all the contributors.

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