THE MAKING OF MONUMENT VALLEY

Jean-François COLONNA

CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques APpliquées), Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS
france telecom, France Telecom R&D
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Abstract: How were done the synthetic pictures of Monument Valley?

Keywords: Fractal Geometry.

This picture of Monument Valley at sunset

is a synthetic one. It was computed using:

an iterative process in order to generate fractal fields [more information],
a fractal bidimensional height field obtained by means of this process [more information],
a distorted version of this field,
a fractal texture map obtained by means of the distorted fractal bidimensional height field,
a tridimensional visualization of the distorted fractal bidimensional height field with texture mapping,
then, fractal clouds were added
and sun effects
or again artistic effects.
Finally, everything can be animated (landscape and clouds) [more information].

Copyright (c) Jean-François Colonna, 1998-2010.
Copyright (c) France Telecom R&D and CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques APpliquées) / Ecole Polytechnique, 1998-2010.