On 10/01/10 18:45, Warp wrote:
> David Given <dg### [at] cowlark com> wrote:
>> The land is an isosurface using topographic data
>> from the Kaguya space probe
>
> Is there a reason to use an isosurface instead of a heightfield?
> Heightfields usually render tens of times faster than isosurfaces.
Isosurfaces were the only way of doing spherical heightfields that I
could find. Are there any other ways?
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