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Sand dunes: a sea of great dunes behind the coast
A sand sea of mega-dunes behind the town: wavy transverse crests with steep slip faces, long linear ridges, or star dunes. Spacing 1 to 3 km, 50 to 300 m tall.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| style | choice | transverse | transverse, linear, star | transverse crests across the wind, linear ridges along it, or star dunes where winds shift |
| height | number | 240 | 50 to 300 m | how tall the dunes stand above the troughs (draa: 50 to 300 m) |
| spacing | number | 1.7 | 1 to 3 km | the distance from one dune crest to the next (draa: 1 to 3 km) |
| wind | number | 215 | 0 to 360 deg | the compass bearing the wind blows from (0 north, 90 east, 210 straight off the sea) |
| slipShare | number | 0.2 | 0.1 to 0.45 | the share of each transverse dune's width taken by its steep lee slip face; the rest is the gentle windward slope |
| crestWander | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how much the crests meander and break: 0 straight, regular ridges, 1 sinuous and irregular |
| variation | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much one dune differs in height from the next |
| ground | number | 18 | 4 to 200 m | the sand plain's height above today's sea, under the dunes |
| seed | integer | 9 | 0 to 999 | the dice behind the wandering crests; a different number, a different dune field |
Use it in a film
film.js
land: element('sand-dunes', { style: 'transverse', height: 240 })Sources
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