World Wide World-o-Mat, or wwWoM for short, is a set of tools to facilitate easy generation of a wide variety of high-quality, realistic planet textures.
The toolset consists of a backend generator application, as well as a front-end php script to serve the images to client application. Generated images are cached and only regenerated when it is needed.
The backend generates textures from a set of parameters, allowing it to create realistic surfaces for planet types ranging from old to new, close to the sun and far away, with high humidity and low, light to heavy and small to huge. Because the generation is performed from a set of pregenerated basic bitmaps, it is extremely fast and takes only a few seconds per planet (and no time at all, ofcourse, when the image is cached).
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Expected release: January 2nd 2010
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