LanLou123/Webgl-Erosion

## Terrain erosion sandbox in WebGl

controls :

press keyboard c to do terrain editions with brush, editions include : add/subtract for water and hight map for now, you can also adjust size of brush
press keyboard r to place permanent water source. (note : 1 . press r again to remove permanent water source, 2 . after it's placed you can see a red circle marking the location, 3 . the size and strength of permanent water is equal to the brush size and strength the moment permanent water source is placed)
press button Start/Resume to the right top corner to start or resume the erosion sim
press button Pause to pause the simulation
press button Reset to reset simulation and start with a new randomly generated base terrain
use WaterTrabsparancy slider to control alpha of water
use EvaporationDegree slider to control anomunt of evaporation you want each simulation step
use Kc slider to control Kc (erosion capacity constant)
use Ks slider to control Ks (erosion dissolvating constant)
use Kd slider to control Kc (erosion deposition constant)
use the dropdown to check the debug views
press right mouse button to rotate camera, press left mouse button to translate camera, use middle mouse to scale...

Algorithm update/fix : added basic(semi-lagrangian) advection for velocity field generation, you can change magnitude of it under "Erosion Parameters" -> "VelocityAdvectionMag", this means that momentum is possible for water, we can have larger/better scale meandering/delta effects
update 10/1/2021 :
Algorithm update/fix : now erosion detail will be more accurate as I've choosen to disregard small water body's contribution to sediment advection, it used to create noises in sediment result because when water volume goes below numerical limitation of the sim, velocity will be contributing the same to advection regardless of water size...
update 9/24/2021 :
Added option to change simulation resolution
update 7/11/2021 :
permanent water source is added, you can pressed r to place it, see controls for details
added heatmeap for velocity magnitude in debug view, mapping color goes from blue to green then to red as the velocity size increases
added MacCormack advection scheme for sediment advection, resulting in less numerical diffusion (referencing : ShaderX7 Advanced Rendering Techniques - starting page 207), you can find and toggle it on/off under erosionParameters in gui

flow map and results after adding velocity advection, this will make sure water have momentum transfered from previous frame, making it more persistent and easier to form ravine/valley
velocity advection also enables better delta/flood plain :
permanent water in a river vally
river vally dries up after some erosion
alluvial fan (or at least a similar one) formed at the mountain exit

Image(height map) I/O
muti-layered(rock/sand/etc) erosion
PBR
adaptive simulation utilizing quadtree(or just tiles) for sim optimization
Depth upsampling/downsampling for volumetric rendering optimization
Better GUI & Visulization
Terrain features like instaced tree placements
other postprocessing effects (ray marched cloud for example, since ray marched Mie scattering is done, cloud should be fairly simple to work based on it)
Biomes
Eventual goal : Erosion based games, "FROM DUST" would be a good example