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[FluffyFreak]

(This probably belongs here and not in projects!)

This is a fascinating collection of techniques in a blog about generating planetary terrain.
Some really interesting topics like craters, snow, terrain variation, dithered fractals, planetary scale erosion, and even different strata affecting the rates of erosion!
https://gamedev.net/blogs/blog/8134-ast ... imulation/

[bszlrd]

Intel Research Concurrent Binary Trees for Large-Scale Game Components GPU friendly planet generating approach with tesselation.

There's an example implementation on github, although no licence is provided.

[FluffyFreak]

These came up in conversation on Discord and I keep losing them
http://www.thetenthplanet.de/archives/4062

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/quest ... -some-sort) I did a branch with real-time noise to improve the look of stars, but it's quite a performance hog in some cases.