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Has anyone written a "Zoom In World" in Blitz3D. Like the one at the following website?
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/planet/
It uses Perlin Noise to zoom in on a planet.
Just hold down the left mouse botton on a spot and move the mouse left or right.
I could see alot of uses for this type of code. It could be used to generate a height map
for 3D terrain generation.
Should be easy enough to do in Blitz3D.

Here is some 2-dimensional Perlin Noise Pseudocode

function Noise1(integer x, integer y)
n = x + y * 57
n = (n<<13) ^ n;
return ( 1.0 - ( (n * (n * n * 15731 + 789221) + 1376312589) & 7fffffff) / 1073741824.0);
end function

function SmoothNoise_1(float x, float y)
corners = ( Noise(x-1, y-1)+Noise(x+1, y-1)+Noise(x-1, y+1)+Noise(x+1, y+1) ) / 16
sides = ( Noise(x-1, y) +Noise(x+1, y) +Noise(x, y-1) +Noise(x, y+1) ) / 8
center = Noise(x, y) / 4
return corners + sides + center
end function

function InterpolatedNoise_1(float x, float y)

integer_X = int(x)
fractional_X = x - integer_X

integer_Y = int(y)
fractional_Y = y - integer_Y

v1 = SmoothedNoise1(integer_X, integer_Y)
v2 = SmoothedNoise1(integer_X + 1, integer_Y)
v3 = SmoothedNoise1(integer_X, integer_Y + 1)
v4 = SmoothedNoise1(integer_X + 1, integer_Y + 1)

i1 = Interpolate(v1 , v2 , fractional_X)
i2 = Interpolate(v3 , v4 , fractional_X)

return Interpolate(i1 , i2 , fractional_Y)

end function


function PerlinNoise_2D(float x, float y)

total = 0
p = persistence
n = Number_Of_Octaves - 1

loop i from 0 to n

frequency = 2i
amplitude = pi

total = total + InterpolatedNoisei(x * frequency, y * frequency) * amplitude

end of i loop

return total

end function