kelsey-sorrels / worldbuilder

World building in Processing

This project is a proof of concept world builder using the Processing framework.

Running

• git clone https://github.com/aaron-santos/worldbuilder
• cd worldbuilder
• mvn exec:java

Press z to toggle between geographical and political displays.

Notes

The simulation runs slowly. An effort as been made to improve the performance, but there is a lot of work still left to be done. Remember: a water model is running to simulate rivers and ocean, an amospheric simulation is running which transports water vapor, vegetation is grown in response to soil moisture, and migrants are searching for ideal locations to start a city.

Enjoy making new worlds!

Enjoy these world-building links

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/woodland/whittaker_v2.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_production_function

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SoilTextureTriangle.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hjulstr%C3%B6ms_diagram_en.PNG

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

http://people.oregonstate.edu/~jennyb/coloredrelief.html

http://www.shadedrelief.com/hypso/hypso.html

http://people.oregonstate.edu/~jennyb/pdf/2006_JennyHurni_SwissStyleShading.pdf

http://markjstock.org/pages/builder.html

http://www.shadedrelief.com/shading/Swiss.html

http://icaci.org/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2009/html/nonref/25_4.pdf

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/2216/is-it-possible-to-emulate-swiss-style-shaded-relief-with-arcgis-tools

http://www.cartania.com/museum.html

https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/1962/AJarocha-ErnstThesis062006.pdf?sequence=1

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tpw/natl/main.html

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/hydro/lectures/evap_precip.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_Buck_equation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goff%E2%80%93Gratch_equation

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/katul/ENV234_Lecture_2.pdf

https://publications.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/40422/Viitanen_Lauri_2012_03_30.pdf?sequence=1 http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/blueroom/demog.htm