Squid Coast Approach - fractal heightfield zoom 

Zooming into fractal heightfields has its pitfalls. The first few attempts were very bumpy rides. I eventually arrived at a two phase method, where some important animation parameters are determined only after the whole collection of elevation maps has been computed first.
With that it was smooth sailing. It is still only a short trip, due to the large amount of computation required. Turned out interesting enough to show around.

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