Today I'm pleased to at last be able to announce the launch of one of
my many side projects. In cooperation with the Middle Earth DEM
Project and the CG Arts organization, I have helped to create a
website dedicated to discussion of the greater terrain modeling
industry and craft. I would like to invite everyone here to
participate in this newly launched community!

http://terrain.cg-arts.org/forum/

We will be discussing a broad range of subject matter, from procedural
terrain modeling and rendering to georeferencing, global terrain
generation and visualization issues, to networked application issues,
and much more.

Rather than being a competitor for discussion groups like this one, it
is focused much more on broad theory and the future of terrain
modeling and visualization in general. Applications like Leveller,
Terragen, Vue d'Esprit, and the like will be discussed, but the goal
is to identify and help solve the remaining major issues of the
terrain industry, rather than to discuss techniques of specific
applications or critique work created in any particular program.

I hope to see many of you there over the coming weeks. Stop by and see
what we're talking about, even if you don't feel you have something to
say. You never know, you may have the magic idea that revolutionizes
terrain as we know it! :)

- Oshyan, Terrain Summit Administrator