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Foil 22 Terrain rendering in VRML

From Study of Use of Databases for VRML and Application to GIS Research Seminar -- 9 february 1996. by Krzysztof Walczak * See also color IMAGE

LOD - Level-Of-Detail
LOD - Level-Of-Detail is a group node used to allow applications switching between various representations of objects.
The child nodes of LOD represent the same object at varying levels of detail.
Which child node is used for the representation of specified object depends on the distance between this object and the camera.
The representations for higher distances have lower resolution.
Use of LOD reduces the number of polygons to be displayed and increases the rendering speed.



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