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Impact crater: a bowl with a raised rim
A meteor impact crater inland of the town: a simple bowl under 4 km, a complex crater with terraced walls and a central peak above, with a raised rim and ejecta.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| diameter | number | 14 | 1 to 30 km | rim to rim; under 4 km a simple bowl, above it a complex crater (Meteor Crater, Arizona: 1.2 km) |
| distance | number | 9 | 5 to 20 km | how far the crater's centre stands from home's door; a larger crater is moved back to clear the town |
| bearing | number | 12 | -45 to 45 deg | which way it lies, in degrees from straight inland toward along the shore |
| type | choice | auto | auto, simple, complex | auto picks a simple bowl below 4 km and a complex crater above; or force one |
| terraces | integer | 3 | 0 to 5 | how many slump terraces step down the walls of a complex crater; 0 for a smooth wall |
| peak | number | 1 | 0 to 1.5 | the central peak's height of a complex crater: 1 true to scale, 0 for none |
| depthScale | number | 1 | 0.4 to 1.4 | 1 is the real depth for the diameter; below it the crater is more filled-in, above it deeper |
| erosion | number | 0.15 | 0 to 1 | 0 a fresh crater, 1 an old one worn low and partly filled with sediment |
| lake | number | 250 | 0 to 250 m | how far the crater floor lies below today's sea: the sea fills it as a crater lake; 0 keeps the floor at sea level |
| ground | number | 30 | 4 to 300 m | the plain around the crater, above today's sea |
| seed | integer | 21 | 0 to 999 | the dice behind the scalloped rim and ejecta rays; a different number, a different crater |
Use it in a film
film.js
land: element('impact-crater', { diameter: 14, distance: 9 })Sources
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