Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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While billboard grass is a performant, easy option for visualizing grass, modern games like Breath Of The Wild are able to utilize real geometry to get more interesting and appealing foliage. How can games nowadays afford to do so?

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References:
lodev.org/cgtutor/randomnoise.html
https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~bmills/docs/teaching/cs1645/lecture_gpu_algo.pdf
developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-vi-gpu-computing/chapter-39-parallel-prefix-sum-scan-cuda

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Getting Started
02:38 Coloring
03:28 Animating
06:10 Reality
07:10 Scan And Compact
09:59 Conclusion

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