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Improving River Simulation
I'm continuing with the process of converting the old region-drawing functions into the new globular context, and refactoring and improving ...
At the moment, UW stores the January and July temperature and rainfall for every point on the global map. )The information in the graphs to the top right are for a point on this river roughly in the middle of the image, where it passes through a pretty cold desert. Now that the program is storing flow information for every month, rivers like the one above should show this kind of variation in a way that adds a bit of believability to the simulation.
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