FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

A map generator that uses a noise fractal and plot random spheroids I call polyglobs. I developed the algorithm originally for Java in another project for testing a-life. It is very beefy so I recommend you don't use unless you have at least a quad core with 4 gigs of free memory. This is more of an art project than a game. Chunks can take well over a minute to load. Do not dig the sand or you will get super lag when it falls in the void. Just for entertainment for those who like neat shapes rather than general gaming use. Some nice parkour areas though.
Generation occurs from Y=3000 to 5000. Recommend entry from topside around Y=5080.
License, free for non-commercial and educational use. Please contact me for commercial use.
Screenshot: (sorry, too big file. Will have to edit and repost)

Tar file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vs11qz46hqfu7u/stackfrac.tar.gz?dl=0
Zip file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9gn53i1cigs44n/stackfrac.zip?dl=0

Looks great! (Looking at image)
The only bad thing might be the shadows.

I didn't test it yet because I don't have the power you described

i1abnrk wrote:I recommend you don't use unless you have at least a quad core with 4 gigs of free memory

I hope this can be programmed, so it works faster and even runs on a single core CPU + 2 GB RAM.

Interesting, will try this later. In case you're interested, the Minetest fork called 'Freeminer' has some fractal world mapgens.

I did use this algorithm on a core2 duo with 1 gig of ram and it took hours for a decent number of chunks did load. So that's why I recommend big CPU. You might get away with less and a big GPU.

i1abnrk wrote:License MIT, free for non-commercial and educational use.

Make up your mind : either it's not MIT, or you can't forbid commercial use.

Nice work anyway.

I'll update the license.

I improved a few things. For one I found returning a singleton is faster than an empty list in one of my functions. Secondly, I have increased the complexity while dropping the calc time order of magnitude. The original link above will download the new version. Chunk gen is now about 8 seconds.

Can you please upload your latest release on forum too (for file mirroring)?

paramat wrote:Interesting, will try this later. In case you're interested, the Minetest fork called 'Freeminer' has some fractal world mapgens.

It does look very similar, but then again it is completely different... This one does not quite follow the fractal pattern(at least at first glance...)

Looks great with a space BG!

Interesting. Will take a look at the code