[Award Winner] Technique for adding coastal detail as you zoom in.

[dr-spangle]

dr-spangle@dr-spangle-laptop:~$ convert -size 512x512 xc: -type Grayscale +noise Random -resize 4096x4096 -contrast +noise Laplacian -blur 2 -contrast /home/dr-spangle/Desktop/noise.png
convert: UnrecognizedNoiseType `Random'.

[isomage]

It's possible you don't have libpng installed, or ImageMagick was configured "--without-png", or both. If you don't want to fix that you could just use gif, since you know it works.

By the way, what distribution and version are you using?

[dr-spangle]

Ubuntu 7.10

Any newer and my crappy wireless card fails...

Getting a new computer in January, thinking about a macbook, they tend to work apparently

This one is sort of falling apart:
http://80.42.17.23/Photos/Laptop/RIMG0903.JPG

Yes, that tape holds the screen up

[Redrobes]

LOL, I like to see every last CPU cycle extracted from a PC before it dies

Dunno what to suggest for the file output other than to try a few types and see what saves out which you can use in Gimp.

[isomage]

"identify -list format" will print a list of supported image formats.

[dr-spangle]

using imagemagick I made this:
http://80.42.17.23/noise3.gif

I used GIMP to make it greyscale and then upped the constrast to 20

then i burnt it onto this map:
http://80.42.17.23/zoomed%20maps/Try%206/3.png

and it produced this:
http://80.42.17.23/check_with_scott_or_andreas2.png

[RobA]

The links don't work for me Can you upload the images here? (Many users will not click on external links for safety's sake)

-Rob A>