Beagle Bros’ tools were fantastic. They literally let you do the (allegedly) impossible, like change the names of operating system commands. And they always packed the disks full with extra stuff. Demos of their other products, and strange graphics hacks that existed for no reason other than the fact that they were cool, and because there was spare room on the disk. Beagle Bros. had a lot to do with why I ever wanted to learn programming in the first place. […]
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Quadtree-based image compression formats and level-of-detail systems all work this way. Satellite imagery, terrain rendering, and geographic information systems use quadtree decomposition to serve data at varying resolutions: zoomed out, you see large coarse blocks; zoomed in, you see fine-grained tiles. The same principle extends to three dimensions (octrees) for volume rendering and 3D spatial indexing.