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Salt flats: a dead-flat dry lake bed
A dead-flat salt pan a few metres over the sea, stretching inland for kilometres and ringed by distant hills, mountains or mesas. The flat is the point.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| level | number | 3 | 0.5 to 12 m | the pan's height above today's sea; it is exactly flat, so it floods all at once when the sea rises past it |
| distance | number | 2.4 | 1.8 to 8 km | how far the pan's seaward edge stands inland of home's door |
| length | number | 14 | 5 to 24 km | how far the pan stretches inland, edge to edge |
| width | number | 16 | 6 to 36 km | how wide the pan is along the shore |
| bearing | number | 8 | -40 to 40 deg | how the pan is turned, in degrees from straight inland toward along the shore |
| outline | number | 0.55 | 0 to 1 | how ragged the pan's old shoreline is: 0 a clean oval, 1 bays and headlands |
| ring | choice | mountains | hills, mountains, mesas | what stands around the pan: rolling hills, jagged mountains or flat-topped mesas |
| ringHeight | number | 900 | 0 to 2500 m | how high the ring rises above the pan; 0 for open desert |
| ground | number | 30 | 4 to 400 m | the height of the plain around the pan, above today's sea |
| seed | integer | 13 | 0 to 999 | the dice behind the shoreline and the ring; a different number, a different basin |
Use it in a film
film.js
land: element('salt-flats', { level: 3, distance: 2.4 })Sources
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