if you wanna add another nice terrain algorithm to panda and you have no idea what to use… well… there you go
just found a bouch of nice links about LOD and LOD’s for terrains.
the following stuff should cover a huge part of commonly known algorithm which could be used for games (and a few more which are less suited for games)
ok here we go:
number one! covering most terrain&lod combinations…
vterrain.org/LOD/Papers/
number 2… a little bit more … with links to terrain lods on spherical terrains aswell as pre-computed stuff…
vterrain.org/LOD/
number 3 (can be found via the links above ) a very nice lod (you should really check the video. high quality if possible)
crs4.it/vic/cgi-bin/multimed … i?id=‘118’
and number 4 (very nice one . scrool down =) )… and remember this one is 6 years old. so it would look a LOT better today
mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/jhamm … images.htm
… well^^ dont forget… there are some LOD’S which work with non-terrain data,too =)