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  Re: bounding turbulence  
From: Leroy Whetstone
Date: 28 Jan 2010 23:18:02
Message: <4B626132.5090601@joplin.com>
Alain wrote:
> For a turbulence with default lambda, omega and octaves.
> Just a dirty approximation:
> A turbulence of 1 seems to approximatively double the extent of a 
> spherical pattern, while turbulence 0.5 seems to increase it by about 50%.
> 
> It's probable that a scale by 1/(turbulence amount +1) will do the job.
> Increasing any parameter will tend to increase the dimentions.

  That's a good start. Now what if you changed lambda, omega and octaves?
I had hope some one who say 'Oh Yes the formula is such and such'.
But I guess I'll just do some experiments to find rule of thumb formulas.


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