Terrain Rendering Challenges
•Regular grid (image) of height values
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•Concise storage à No paging hiccups
•Real-Time frame rates à 60 fps
•Visual continuity à 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