pamcrater

generates synthetic terrain with impact craters, useful for creating planetary

TLDR

Generate terrain with craters

$ pamcrater -width [512] -height [512] > [output.pam]

Generate with specific crater count

$ pamcrater -number [1000] -width [256] -height [256] > [output.pam]

SYNOPSIS

pamcrater [options]

DESCRIPTION

pamcrater generates synthetic terrain with impact craters, useful for creating planetary surface textures or heightmaps. Output is grayscale elevation data. Part of Netpbm toolkit.

PARAMETERS

-width n

Output width in pixels.

-height n

Output height in pixels.

-number n

Number of craters to generate.

-randomseed n

Random seed for reproducibility.