[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Freeciv fractal mapgenerator (fwd)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:04:20PM -0400, Karen Yeats wrote:
> Hello.  I wrote the fractal map generator whose screenshots you liked.
> Here is a diff which should work with today's cvs.  I realize that right
> now there is a feature freeze, so it will not be included in cvs any time
> soon, but perhaps in the meantime people would like to play with it
> themselves.  The diff makes the fractal generator into generator 5.  I
> really like the earth-likeness of the continents.  The prettiest maps are
> made with tinyisles on, separate poles off, and a large world, but the
> generator is robust enough for the whole range of options.

quite impressive.

> 
> I haven't been following freeciv-dev lately so I don't know if anything
> ever happened with maps of different topologies, however the generator is
> written so that it would be easy to deal with other topologies.

this is near the top of the list post-release

-mike