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A grayscale texture used as a displacement map to define the topography of the polygons. Usually the brighter pixels make higher elevations, and the darker pixels make lower elevations, and 50% gray pixels make no change. Often the [[AlphaChannel|alpha channel]] of an object's texture is used for the height map. [[Voxel|Voxel]] landscapes often use height maps.
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