The Making of Monument Valley
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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:
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an iterative process in order to generate fractal fields
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a fractal bidimensional height field obtained by means of this process
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a distorted version of this field,
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a fractal texture map obtained by means of the distorted fractal bidimensional height field,
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a tridimensional visualization of the distorted fractal bidimensional height field
with texture mapping,
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then, fractal clouds were added
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and sun effects
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or again artistic effects.
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Finally, everything can be animated (landscape and clouds)
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Copyright © Jean-François COLONNA, 1998-2026.
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