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Do you have that collection of bookmarks posted/shared anywhere? Always curious to see more stuff like this.

I use some of my spare time to hack around on proc gen stuff - mainly targeted toward generating starfields & planets using GPU's. Here's something I worked on recently regarding generating realistic nebulas and starfields http://www.junkship.net/News/2014/02/02/my-god-its-full-of-s...

This is awesome. Those starfields are beautiful.

i have fond memories of playing with terragen back in the day. no idea what techniques they used, but they got startlingly good results.

If memory serves, Terragen also used Perlin noise by default, unless you imported your own bitmaps or selected a different algorithm. :)

Yeah, in Terragen 1&2 it was just a simple heightmapl, but Terragen 3 was a huge rewrite - not sure what they use now.

Would be interested in such a list if you can share it :)

Mee too, please share in pastebin or somewhere.