diamond-square algorithm (English, name)
expansion: the diamond-square algorithm
Senses:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for generating heightmaps. It starts with a two-dimensional grid and then randomly generates terrain height from four seed values arranged in a grid of points so that the entire plane is covered in squares.
Forms:
form: the diamond-square algorithm
tags: canonical