Weekend experiment: foggy landscapes by rendering out slices of noise to a bunch of textures and then just stacking them all up

Mirror slices along x axis: instant lakes

also before anyone asks, yes, this can be trivially modified to generate The Album Cover

gradients: promising

Idea: use ddx on slice height to get 1D slope value, use that as lookup into a gradient to approximate shading

Result is... weird? Kills most of the softness that made it look nice before. Prob worth experimenting further

Dropping noise detail: Shading gets much nicer, but all the mountain shapes are boring now and it looks very... computery

Alternatively: 8 octaves with 200 slices achieves FULL BRYCE 3D

Tried warping the slope gradients and headed towards some kind of 2D texturing aesthetic and okay this is DEFINITELY going places

#generative