Fractal Landscape 1: Executable or Text Version

Press space-bar to halt the program, then -s- to exit completely.

This first program attempts to create a passable looking computer generated landscape, using simple mathematical rules. First take a straight line between 2 points A and B, then move the mid-point, C, up or down by a random amount, up to a given maximum. Then do the same for the straight line between A and C and A and B, but reducing the maximum.

Fractal Landscape 2: Executable or Text Version

NOTE: BEFORE running the TEXT version, you need to download this picture for the sky by RIGHT clicking the mouse and using "Save Target As". THEN download the executable but SAVE it to the SAME FOLDER as the picture for the sky. Then RUN the Program. Otherwise, the Program will FAIL.

Press the space-bar to re-RUN the program. Alternatively, you can see the SAME picture again by pressing either of -h-, -l-, -f-, or -b-, to move the viewpoint Higher, Lower, Forward or Back respectively. Otherwise press any other key to exit, once the picture has appeared.

The processing time in the high-resolution option is quite long - a minute or so, even with a 2GHz PC.
If you get fed-up waiting or are worried the program has stalled, use Alt-F4 to exit. This program uses up to 150Mb of RAM ! Therefore, you may get an Error message,if there's not enough memory. In this case, again use Alt-F4 to exit.

Below is a screen capture of the latest Fractal Landscape generated by the above program.

Fractal Landscape 3: Executable or Text Version

Includes mistiness or shading as distance increases, and has been made drastically faster using Assembly Language for some key routines.