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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

Cars That Think

Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Textures offered new details.

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