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4 Nov 2024 13:21:56 EST (-0500)
  Re: Slow-rendering grass (22 kbbu)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 28 Aug 2000 08:57:33
Message: <39AA61EC.FE0CD81C@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> This grass may be slow but the code (IMHO) is ingeniously simple!  A
> 320x 240 took 23 min to render...
> 

Interesting idea, but not very flexible though.  Adding improvements to the
isosurface function would probably increase render time a lot.  I wonder how
this compares to a tiled noise heightfield.  It would surely need more memory
but the rendering time could be similar or shorter.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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