BiomeGen
BiomeGen is a map generation and visualization console app, written in C. It uses forks in C for better efficiency. It can generate various land biomes and water with shading for depth. It uses my own algorithm, and splits the map into polygons, which allows for a good final product, while avoiding the resource demand of individually generating every pixel. The generator also has a number of settings, allowing users to influence the map's general look, including map dimensions, island abundance and size, and coastline smoothness. You can also change the number of CPU threads used in map generation, allowing for reduced generation times. Version 1.0.0 was released in July 2025, and the project is under the General Public License v3.0.
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Below are a variety of graphs relating to BiomeGen's performance across versions, processor counts, and resolutions. Graphs with no specified resolution are at 1080p, and graphs with no specified number of processes are at the fastest number, 8 or 16. Pixels per second are measured by the number of pixels generated (~2.07M for 1080p) divided by the seconds of generation. The machine used for these tests has a 16-thread processor, 32 GB of RAM, and is running on antiX 23.2 (a Debian-based Linux distro). Versions not included are not significantly different from their previous version. Versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 are not significantly different from 2.1.2, the first included version.