Fractal planet
Requirements: GLEW, glfw, glm, libnoise
Generate a spherical object using libnoise to perturb the surface. There are 2 different mappings of vertex data to the sphere. The first use a naive polar coordinate mapping. This causes alot of clustering near the poles of the planet. The second takes a cube and attempts to morph it so that it maps to a rough approximation of a sphere. I find this method gives a more even spread of vertices and a nicer looking planet.
By default running the program will generate a planet using polar coordinates. If you pass in the arg 'c' to the program, it will switch to using the cube mapping method.
Polar coordinates:
Cube mapping:
