Is It Real or Memorex?

[efflux]

The real difficulty in trying to do this with an Landscape app, at least without using a DEM, would be in getting the erosion/deposition in the hills. That's what really gives it away as being real. The rest of it is probably possible with a lot of work, at least to look realistic if not with as much variety as in the picture.

[Oshyan]

In this case you would definitely want to use DEM's as they're readily available for the area with decent resolution. But yes, creating such a scene from scratch would be quite difficult in terms of terrain modeling.

- Oshyan

[efflux]

Having said that, the vegetation is very real looking. Difficult to do this I guess but you could get something that looks OK. This is a great picture to judge against because it has things we'd want to strive for.

Dmytry (Mojoworld plugins) had an erosion/depostion fractal in the pipeline that looked really great:



So I guess it's possible to get some of the way there procedurally. Sadly this was never released. We'll have to wait for Dmytry's own app I suppose.

Canon Digital Rebel Cameras are good for Landscapes but terrible for portraits. Bad skin colours.