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	Building a Hand in Rhinoceros Tutorial on building a hand with trimmed NURBS. Image and tutorial by Jeremy Birn Visits: 827
	Adding Realistic Rivers to Random Terrain Discusses a method for adding rivers to randomly generated terrain that adds a realistic touch. Image and tutorial by David Clyde Visits: 1337
	Box Filtering Height Maps for Smooth Rolling Hills Explains how to remove the sharp edges in height maps using a simple convolution filter. Image and tutorial by Graham Wihlidal Visits: 620
	Fast Computation of Terrain Shadow Maps Covers the lighting and shadowing aspects of terrain rendering. Image and tutorial by Mircea Marghidanu Visits: 580
	Terrain Geomorphing in the Vertex Shader This article, excerpted from the upcoming ShaderX2 - Shader Programming Tips and Tricks, discusses the implementation a fast terrain renderer which works optimally with current 3D hardware. Image and tutorial by Daniel Wagner Visits: 1314
	The Second Life of Brute Force Terrain Mapping The article describes how advances in 3D hardware have benefitted terrain mapping algorithms. With the current state of technology, the brute force has become, in some situations, a realistic alternative to modern CLOD mapping. Image and tutorial by Sander Mar�chal Visits: 485
	Collision Detection Covers the bounding rectangles and pixel-perfect approaches to collision detection, including an argument for testing against a single pixel in some cases. Image and tutorial by John Amato Visits: 567
	Collision Detection Algorithm TANSTAAFL throws his hat into the ring with a straightforward method using bitmasks. Image and tutorial by TANSTAAFL Visits: 223
	Creating a PAK File Format Demonstrates one way of organising all your game related media files in to a single "PAK", or resource, file. Image and tutorial by Raymond Wilson Visits: 1665
	Loading and displaying .X files without DirectX Detailed description of the .X file format, including how to load and animate it without DirectX. Image and tutorial by Paul Coppens Visits: 1202