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Command Routing is a concept inspired on a similar technology found in the Windows Presentation Foundation stack. In essence command routing is about segregation of executable code and the call-site. It also forms an excellent abstraction for game-engines to deal with input and gestures.

Code below allows you to wrap a texture using PBO. Works nice if you need to displace lets say an normal/elevation-map with fixed interval around the camera. So you can progressively insert the new areas.

Part of recent events I've been busy on a streaming module of terrain rendering allowing an virtually unlimited terrain. While this is trivial there is still a problem of getting content. Luckily there are published elevation files,  SMRT or  it's predecessor DEM, from earth's key locations e.g. Taiwan. To process elevation information we do what we engineers do best, write tools.

A few days ago I was confronted with a publication of BitSquid on practical data orientated design, and one of the highlights for myself was the part about transform hierarchies. If you are not familiar with the article in question I recommend reading the article .