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		Iv on Jan 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines ... GPU cycles are what is precious now. The idea that we basically run a whole program on each pixel, on 4K displays, at 60fps nowadays is just mindboggling.

pjmlp on Jan 4, 2020 [–]

While it is mindboggling, it is basically the PC catching up to ideas put in practice on the Amiga blitter, NeXTSTEP Renderman, PS3 Cell.

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