Reposted by Hauke von Arding
A joint paper by UTokyo and Game Freak (img 1), published in 2025-08, is possibly the technical underpinnings beneath the “nice water” in Pokémon Winds/Waves.
To improve rendering speed and reduce memory footprint, it uses a grid of quadtree tall cell to simulate deep water (img 2; columns 3-4).
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