http://www.swiftless.com Game Programming and Computer Graphics Tutorials Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:18:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/terrain/7_lod.html http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/terrain/7_lod.html#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:09:16 +0000 Swiftless http://swiftless.com/wordpress/?p=265 Level of Detail is a means of decreasing the polygon count of an object to gain a speed boost in your application. This is an extremely simple take on this, which simply draws every fourth vertex. The best part is, that on such a large terrain, you don't even notice this.
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