I haven't been on much recently, but fear not, for it isn't because i don't love minecraft, but rather I love it too much. Behold the wonders of terrain generation for the skyranch:
image001 by
billybobsky, on Flickr
Thats right, I am using excel to visualize something that would be better done using the very code I heavily modified to get this beauty. Never mind that. Also: this terrain wasn't exactly satisfactory, so i have recommitted the code to generating a new one... Unfortunately as everything is based upon random number generators and the entire perlin noise process takes some time, and i have to toss out the vast majority of the terrains because they don't match the sole filtering criteria (have a height of one at the opening), it takes about 15 minutes per evaluation. Again, never mind all that... Soon I will have a terrain to befit the skyranch...