Ask HN: Fractal archives?

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Is it possible to give somebody a fractal formula... and then coordinates and another formula. And by calculations the next person will generate a file* larger than the provided formula and coordinate formula itself.

This is an idea... I'm sure that it's possible. What do you think?

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It is similar to the auto generated random terrains. See for example https://blog.habrador.com/2013/02/how-to-generate-random-ter... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196154 (95 points | Feb 10, 2013 | 27 comments)

In this blog, the terrain is generated at random, but there are other variants that has a coarse version of the map as input and complete them deterministically (for example using a fixed seed).

There are a few more posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=random%20terrain&sort=byPopula...

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