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Volcanic island arc offshore
A curved chain of volcanic islands standing offshore, each a cone rising from the deepening sea floor, with the home coast behind them.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| islands | integer | 6 | 3 to 9 | how many islands in the chain |
| height | number | 900 | 250 to 1500 m | the tallest possible summit above sea level; each island is 40 to 100 percent of this |
| islandRadius | number | 2800 | 1600 to 4200 m | the typical radius of an island's cone at its base on the sea floor |
| steepness | number | 1.7 | 1.2 to 2.6 | the cone's profile: 1 a straight cone, more a steep summit over a long skirt |
| spacing | number | 4800 | 3000 to 7000 m | the distance from one island to the next along the arc |
| curve | number | 16000 | 8000 to 40000 m | the radius of the arc: small is strongly curved, large is nearly straight |
| distance | number | 7500 | 4500 to 12000 m | how far the arc's outermost island stands out to sea from home's door |
| offset | number | 1500 | -6000 to 6000 m | where the arc is centred, along the shore from the door |
| seaDepth | number | 130 | 30 to 300 m | how deep the sea floor is, far offshore, around the islands |
| crater | bool | true | – | sink a small crater into each summit |
| plain | number | 24 | 4 to 120 m | the height of the plain behind the town, 10 km inland |
Use it in a film
film.js
land: element('island-arc', { islands: 6, height: 900 })Sources
Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.