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		Iv on Jan 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines ... And took minutes to render one frame. It was triangle based though and more beautiful. I don't think they had a voxel engine built in.

HereBeBeasties on Jan 4, 2020 [–]

They didn't. It was light-path based, so similar to ray tracing. It'd also do trees, mist, etc.

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