Terrain Synthesis Community

Links

• Terrain Creation
  • World Machine (Stephen Schmitt):  Best erosion system out there, IMHO.
        (Development diary,  Forum)
  • Geo Control (Cajomi Johannes Rosenberg): Another quite good terrain generation system.
        (Forum)
  
      
• Terrain Rendering
  • Terragen (Planetside.co.uk): This is probably the best specialized terrain rendering software out there.
        (Forum)
  • Vue (e-on): Professional nature scene rendering software with a wide range of capabiilities.
  
      
• Terrain Projects
  • Virtual Terrain Project (Ben Discoe):  In the last Siggraph paper review I got, the reviewer specifically asked me to check out this site for a list of complete and up-to-date reference.  
  • Middle Earth DEM Project:  A group of talented designers/programmers getting together to work on creating Middle Earth DEM.
        Terrain Summit Forum (Carl Lingard and Oshyan Greene)
  
      
• Related Research Projects
  • PPA

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