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2D Terrain generation using midpoint displacement

bitesofcode.wordpress.com published 2016-12-23

Today I will present how to implement in Python a simple yet effective algorithm for proceduraly generating 2D landscapes. It is called Midpoint Displacement (or Diamond-square algorithm,…

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