stackyFACTSWithout this crucial math, looking down a long virtual road turns the asphalt into a muddy, smeared catastrophe. Standard rendering algorithms violently fail when textures are viewed from extremely sharp angles. Forcing the GPU to sample non-square pixel shapes restores the detail, so the floor stops looking like melted crayons.
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