Re: [Algorithms] Terrain performance comparisons

[Clint B. <cl...@ha...>]

Loic Baumann wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm not sure I've read the whole thread (it's quite big), but I'd like to
>know if you people have talked about the memory issue of each main
>techniques (CLOD, ROAM, etc...)?
>
>If that's not the case, could I get some insights?
>
>For instance, for a heightmap of say 512*512, how much memory each technique
>will take? I know that algo like CLOD is adaptive to the terrain curvature
>and there may be a lots of settings to tweak the overall size, but I still
>can get an overall idea I guess...
>  
>
take a look here for an evaluation of some algorithms. The last table 
shows some memory used for given heightmap dimensions:
http://www.vterrain.org/LOD/memory.html
-c