Fractal Landscapes

Here are some examples of artifical landscapes generated by Ken Musgrave. Click each picture to magnify.
Making realistic-looking landscapes is difficult enough, but doing this so they can be stored in small files is remarkable.
Random self-affinity, a realization of fractional Brownian motion, is a key ingredient in producing compact representations of these images.
Many more examples can be found at www.pandromeda.com.
Here are two animations by Armands Auseklis. Click each image to start the download.
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