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  • The first filter that is applied to the height map is a simple Gaussian blur, which the GPU handles with ease, but which -- if left to its own devices -- would simply smooth out all the dramatic extremes in the height map and leave us with a bunch of bland rolling hills.

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  • The tie-in is related to the height in the atmosphere from which clouds radiate infrared radiation to space.

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  • Prior to that, the UK was in recession at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

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  • At least 15 engines and 75 firefighters were called in to tackle the height of the blaze in a disused warehouse in the east of the city.

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  • Indeed, the financial and organizational history behind the Heisman Trophy is just as open to debate as the award itself has been since it was first handed out in New York City at the height of the Depression in 1935.

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  • The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".

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  • King Juan Carlos has had to apologise for going elephant hunting in Botswana at the height of the financial crisis, while his son-in-law has been at the centre of a corruption investigation.

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  • The first patented version of Monopoly was launched in the United States in 1935 at the height of Great Depression.

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  • BMI, the ratio of weight in kilograms to the square of height in metres, is a common, if imperfect, gauge of whether someone is over- or underweight.

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  • At the very least, there is a growing chance that a record rally in corporate debt that began at the height of the credit crisis in 2008 may be entering a new, uncertain phase.

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  • The first track at the site was built in 1987 at the height of the sport's popularity, before falling into disrepair.

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  • He said in court papers that unlike the height of elegance evoked "in the classic Eloise series of children's books, " the apartment failed to live up to the promises made by the sponsor.

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  • Based upon data from the paper, the cooling climate impact from the decrease in the average global cloud height more than offset the positive forcing from an increase in greenhouse gases from human activities in the last decade.

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