Nonconvex Terrains (Mild)

These "mild" terrains have less height variation than do the "rough" terrains.
All times were measured on on an Linux PC with a Pentium III 600 MHz processor and 256MB RAM.

All images Copyright (C) 2000 Biliana Kaneva and Joseph O'Rourke


A terrain of approx. 400 vertices (800 faces), overhead view.

Statistics: n = 392; F = 778;; time = 39 sec; memory = 19.657 MB

A terrain of approx. 700 vertices (1,400 faces).

Statistics: n = 650; F = 1294; time = 106 sec; memory = 35.58 MB

A terrain of approx. 1,500 vertices (3,000 faces).

Statistics: n = 1679; F = 3352;; time = 848 sec; memory = 105.134 MB

A terrain of approx. 2,500 vertices (5,000 faces), overhead view.

Statistics: n = 2597; F = 5188; time = 3671 sec; memory = 198.892 MB


Research supported by NSF grant CCR-9731804.
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