In addition to LOD (You can thank ThisIsLife17 for a great breakdown of what LOD is), the other technique used here is called Frustum Culling. Basically any object outside the camera’s field of vision is “culled” from the scene. Occlusion Culling is another technique which can be used to turn off objects hidden behind…

“I sit fascinated by every little move and gesture being made by a piece of code.”

As a straight guy and as someone who has to keep up with the industry, it’s been very difficult to get into anime as a whole because of fan service. Given that this makes me sort of an anime noob, forgive me if my outlook is limited.

RE: “Why not distract yourself?” Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe we ought to take this opportunity to start paying attention.

What do you think a urinal is? A 360-spinning pedestal with porcelain target designed to display the male organ? Generally, I get as close to the wall-mounted, privacy-screened apparatus as I can, but in 25 years, I’ve never seen a dick in the mens’ room. We generally keep them to ourselves.