View-Dependent Tessellation and Simulation of Ocean Surfaces

Table 2

Comparison of time (in milliseconds) required for animating ocean surfaces with different polygonal complexities with Perlin noise and a FFT-based solution.

Number of triangles	Perlin noise	FFT
4,096	2.45	4.89
16,384	3.14	6.45
65,536	4.18	7.22
262,144	5.69	10.23
562,500	13.25	18.65