Grand Line - a fractal attempt in branching

Further explorations of the fractal height field style. As a 2D image, this one would be very busy and much of the structure would be obscured by noise. As an elevation map, it is fairly readable. Not as beautiful as others, to my taste. But interesting enough.

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The basic workflow for imagery like this starts with a program that can produce 2D pictures of fractals. Usually the abstract information is mapped to some color palette. That is, for each pixel, first some abstract number is computed. Then that number is used to select a color for each pixel.
However, instead of mapping the abstract image to color, I am interpreting it as height. So I obtain some kind of elevation map. In computer graphics, this is traditionally called a height field.
I am importing that height field into a 3D graphics rendering program. This is a second step, independent of how the height field was produced.
Unfortunately I am using homebrew programs for that, which aren't really usable for anyone but myself. But if you want to experiment yourself, you can get quite far with existing, free, fractal generators and 3D rendering programs. What you need is patience with yourself and with your computer, and perhaps a thirst for exploration. 🙂

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