Five Landscapes of the World
Stonehenge Salisbury Plain, UK
Summer Solstice — Ancient Dawn
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Building the landscape
Not photographs — world scenes built by code
The weathered grain of megaliths, desert ripple lines, a sacred moat shrouded in jungle canopy, tidal flats reflecting evening skies, and the thunderous spray of waterfalls crowned with a rainbow. Each scene is drawn entirely in procedural code without image textures, capturing what has made these places unforgettable across millennia.
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Stonehenge
Rolling chalk downs of Salisbury Plain in southern England. Raised around 2500 BCE, the sarsen circle and trilithons capture the rising sun of the summer solstice in timeless alignment.
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Pyramids & Sphinx
The Giza Plateau on the edge of the Libyan Desert. The Great Pyramid, Khafre with its surviving limestone casing cap, and the monumental lion-bodied guardian resting in the evening dust.
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Angkor Wat
The pinnacle of Khmer sacred architecture in Cambodia's tropical forests. Across a 190-meter moat, five lotus-bud towers cast an iconic reflection in the northern reflecting pool at dawn.
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Mont Saint-Michel
A granite island abbey rising from the dramatic 15-meter tides of Saint-Malo bay in Normandy. Fortified medieval ramparts and soaring Gothic spires culminate in the golden archangel Michael.
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Niagara Falls
The thundering Horseshoe Falls along the US-Canada border, dropping 54 meters across a 790-meter curve. Thousands of tons of water crash into the gorge, throwing up a vast plume where rainbows gleam in the daylight.