Links

This is a collection of links about the creation of maps that I've found useful.

• Cartographers' Guild: A useful forum all about creating maps.
• Generating fantasy maps: A very nice algorithm by Martin O'Leary written in Javascript (with source code)
• Wilbur: A Windows based mapping program. I hear it is quite good.
• Random fractals in image synthesis by Dietmar Saupe: This is the article I saw long ago that got me started on trying to create this program. I barely understand it, but I know enough to be dangerous.
• Modelling Planets: A tutorial about some of the fractal algorthims used to create maps.
• Sphere Point Picking: An algorithm for picking a random point on the surface of a sphere. Useful for certain fractal operations.
• Elevation histogram: This is a picture from Wikipedia showing the frequency of elevations on Earth. So, iCartographer SHOULD generate similar frequencies. Presently, it doesn't.
• Swiss-Style Colour Relief Shading Modulated by Elevation and by Exposure to Illumination: An article on shading mountains. I need to look closer at it.