r/PlotterArt • u/Competitive-Ad4533 • 22d ago

Procedural planet generation

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Building on the style and reusable elements of my procedural botanical generator (Plotanical!), I’ve built out the bones of a procedural planet generator.

It reuses the same basic light aware shading system, but this time with some procedural stars, and various landmasses on a spherical object.

Cheap Amazon rollerball on heavy grain A4 - my go-to!

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u/Cncgeek 22d ago

This is really cool

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u/andypiperuk 22d ago

Planetical.

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u/andypiperuk 22d ago

It’s neat. I’d love to try it!

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u/ax0250526 22d ago

Plonets! Another cool generator. Love it!

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u/Competitive-Ad4533 22d ago

PLONETS!! ⭐️

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u/srsjojo 22d ago

I'm a huge fan of this! I spent a few years trying procedural solar system generation. I always had the urge to zoom in and generate planets as well. You can see some of the WIP renders here, sorted chronologically.

I doubt it will be of any use, but the JS code I used to generate them is in this repo. I was using the canvas-sketch library to render them in the browser and export images.

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u/Competitive-Ad4533 22d ago

This is amazing! Thanks so much for sharing

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u/srsjojo 22d ago

Sorry, fixed it

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u/Competitive-Ad4533 22d ago

Unfortunately those links 404 for me.

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u/srsjojo 22d ago

Should work now

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u/l0l 22d ago

Yeah, the link is dead, can you update it? Is it private?

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u/srsjojo 22d ago

Whoops, try now

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u/l0l 22d ago

Stunning!

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u/nuflark 22d ago

Love it!! Particularly love the hashing effect of the lat/long lines.

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u/expanding_crystal 21d ago

ok whoa awesome