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		IshKebab 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique ... Well, it was also known to be fake trickery. But fake trickery that ran fast and looked good. IIRC Quake 3 levels had true curved surfaces, though presumably they were polygonised at some point in the rendering pipeline.

Sharlin 40 days ago [–]

They were dynamically tessellated on the CPU. These days we can of course do the same thing on the GPU, using tessellation/geometry/mesh shaders or even compute shaders, depending.

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