Defintions
Here is a collection of terms that I've come to use while developing MapGen.
Terrain Type
- Procedural Terrain
- water (seas, rivers, etc…) and mountains, so called because they are defined by a height map which is a two dimension function
- Grown Terrain
- plain, farm, forest, swamp, waste, so called because they are generated with methods similar to single cell automatons
Province Size
Province size is determined by the ratio of area of a province to the expected average area of a province. This ratio is defined as
\begin{align} \varepsilon=\frac{sn}{xy} \end{align}
Small
(2)\begin{align} 0 < \varepsilon \leq \frac{1}{2} \end{align}
Medium
(3)\begin{align} \frac{1}{2} < \varepsilon \leq 2 \end{align}
Large
(4)\begin{align} 2 < \varepsilon \end{align}
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