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Contents

Introduction
Spectral Synthesis
The Algorithm
Adding Some
Water
Links & Files

Printable version

Links

My article on procedural texturing
Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach at Amazon.com
Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach at fatbrain.com
Ken Musgrave's Home Page - one of the authors of the above book. Has lots of examples of procedurally generated textures and models.
Pixar's Home page
Some renderman info @ pixar.com

Files

terrain2.zip (41 kB). Terrain example, full source
ecosys.zip (34 kB). Ecosystem - full project, no source