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		       Tiny Planet Viewer - release 0.6 (alpha)
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Description:
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Tiny Planet Viewer is an OpenGL viewer of detailled earth texture such as BlueMarble
from Earth Observatory (NASA) or any other planet texture.

In order to avoid dealing with one extra large texture at rendering time, the
extra large texture is processed ( in a preprocess stage) to make a quadtree 
( pyramids of mipmaps).
At rendering time, taking care of camera position, the earth is subdivied in =~ quads
and only the needed level of detail textures are loaded then rendered.

The planet is tesselated along a Cube to Sphere projection, more details in
doc/ are coming soon.


Dependencies:
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Simple Directmedia Layer Library > 1.2.0
OpenGL > 1.2
AedLib for gui ?


17 May 2004
Jean-Christophe Duberga, jeanchristophe.duber@free.fr
