All images were created using Landscape in a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, 24-bit colour depth. The computer was an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900 MHz, equipped with a CardExpert GeForce2 MX graphics card, running Windows 98. OpenGL's anti-aliasing was disabled and the images were converted from BMP to JPG (because each bitmap file was about 2.25 MB).

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(a)	(b)
(c)	(d)
(e)	(f)
The images above were created using fractal subdivision. They consist of 128x128 (= 16,384) patches which totals 32,768 triangles. Lighting was disabled in (a), it was enabled in the other images. In (a), (b), and (c) the colours were obtained by interpolating the height of each point in the landscape. The difference between (b) and (c) is that in (b) no interpolation of surface normals was done, while in (c) each surface's normal was interpolated using the six surrounding surfaces (triangles). In (d) and (e) I used gold material to model the landscape (with interpolated surface normals in (e) and not in (d)). In (f), texture mapping was used to map three different textures (for the sea, grass, and snow) onto the surface's quadrilaterals.

(a)	(b)
(c)	(d)
(e)	(f)
(g)	(h)
Landscape has the ability to use bitmap files as a template for building the polygonal structure of a landscape (it converts each pixel to a brightness value and uses this to calculate the height of the corresponding vertex). Because 2D plasma clouds are perfectly suited for this task, I used Fractint (wiki) to construct a plasma map and scaled it to 128x128 (= 16,384) pixels out of which the landscape was constructed. I disabled the sea in all the above images and lighting was enabled (except in (g)). Surface normals were interpolated in (b), (d), and (f) and not in (a), (c), and (e) (you can clearly see the triangles out of which the landscape is constructed). In (a) and (b) the colours were obtained by interpolating the height of each point in the landscape, in (c) and (d) I interpolated the colours of the original plasma field bitmap and in (e) and (f) I used gold material. Using the original colours and disabling lighting resulted in (g). I used texture mapping to create (h).

(a)	(b)
(c)	(d)
(e)	(f)
Using the same plasma map as above, I enabled lighting and coloured each triangle by interpolating the heights of its vertices. The surface normals were interpolated. Gradually increasing the sea level resulted in images (a) through (f).

(a)	(b)
Using Fractint (wiki) I created a rudimentary image of the Mandelbrot set and scaled it to 96x96 (= 9,216) pixels. Lighting was enabled and interpolation of the surface normals was disabled. In (a) I coloured each triangle by interpolating its vertices' heights, in (b) I used gold material.

(a)	(b)
(c)	(d)
Using my own face as a template I constructed a rather weird looking landscape. The photo consisted of 214x267 (= 57,138) pixels which resulted in 114,276 triangles. In (a) you can see 'me', with each triangle coloured by interpolating the height of its vertices (no surface normals were interpolated). In (b) I repositioned the camera so that the landscape is viewed from directly above. In both (c) and (d) lighting was disabled. In (d) the original colours of the photograph were used (note that in real life I don't look as bad as this :) ).