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Re:Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative by LukaD on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:41AM (#50392875)
It's not the same mipmapping that games use really, but dividing the map data into a quadtree with progressively finer resolutions.

It's more like turning mipmapping into a paging system.

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