Terrain Rendering Challenges
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Regular grid (image) of height values
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Concise storage
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No paging hiccups
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Real-Time frame rates
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60 fps
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Visual continuity
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No temporal pops
Terrains are just grids of height values….
The trick is to find a good way to convert these height values into geometry that can be efficiently rendered by a computer