Something like this diolma?

To make this I first looked at some maps of Bifurcated flows. I then drew a flow and used it to control the distribution of objects in an EcoSystem on a terrain model of a volcano.

I then used a new Python script, ecotoobject.py, to place cubes where there were instances in the EcoSystem. Next I textured the terrain that had the EcoSystem on in with a rock texture, destroying the instances at the same time. Selecting all the cubes I made them into a metablob and then baked that to a mesh to speed up rendering and reduce memory usage. Finally I applied a magma texture and rendered.

The Python script and image map are both up on my blog if anyone wants to get a copy...

• http://impworks.blogspot.com/2006/06/v5i-bifurcated-lava-flow.html
• http://impworks.blogspot.com/2006/06/v5i-ecosystem-to-objects-python-script.html

[Edited because the picture didn't appear]

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