33(^) goal. But MojoWorld will be a hell of a lot more
compelling when we have high-resolution
immersive displays, and realism like the
photorealistic renderer currently yields, only in
real-time. At that point we’ll have the first true
incarnation of virtual reality. VR, to date, is
anything but “reality,” in my professional
opinion. But it’s only a matter of engineering,
both software and hardware, to get there from
here. It will happen, and not too long from now.
Huw: What does MojoWorld give you in a
practical sense that a more 'traditional'
landscape generator does not?
KM: First and foremost, it gives you the
opportunity to explore. Second, MojoWorld
provides a level of realism that surpasses other
landscape generators, simply because of
MojoWorld’s prefect detail in all renderings. In
other packages, you “fall off the edge of the
world” if you stray too far, and, when you get
too close, the terrain and textures become flat
and boring. This ability to roam and have perfect
detail everywhere is what puts the “there” there
in MojoWorld.
Other packages are more mature, having been
around longer, and each has its specialty, things
it does best. MojoWorld isn’t a replacement for
the others, but rather an entirely new
technology. Most “traditional” landscape
packages are geared more for rendering real-
world terrain data sets than for actually
generating new terrains. MojoWorld excels at
just that — it’s by far the most powerful
landscape generator on the market. I personally
put a lot of fancy terrains into Bryce 4 when I
was part of the Bryce team at MetaCreations,
but they’re a tiny — and infinitely less detailed —
subset of what MojoWorld can do.
Huw: Can you foresee real-world applications for
this kind of technology. For instance, for
scientific, mathematical, meteorological
research?
Our thanks to Huw Collingbourne
for kind permission to republish
this long interview. Huw is in the
UK and is online at:
https://bitwisecourses.com/
Picture: “Planet ‘Middle-earth’” by Mutinate. A
pure MojoWorld render on a unique planet.