{"slug": "show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser", "title": "Show HN: Talus, a small terrain diffusion model that runs in the browser", "summary": "Developer osfv released Talus, a 23-million-parameter terrain diffusion model trained from scratch on 45,000 heightmaps generated by the developer's own procedural generator, which runs entirely in a browser and is published open source under the Apache License on GitHub. Talus generates 64x64 game heightmaps and was trained on a single consumer GPU, an RTX 5060, though the developer notes it was trained only on procedural maps.", "body_md": "Talus is a small diffusion model that makes game heightmaps and runs entirely in the browser.\n\ntry it at: [https://talus.tersa.tech](https://talus.tersa.tech)\n\nIt has 23M parameters and it was trained from scratch. The training data was 45K maps from my own generator.\n\nI made it to get terrain I can ask for whenever. The best part is that it can run on a consumer GPU (For e.g. I trained it on an RTX 5060).\n\nIt's limits are the 64x64 maps, and it was only trained on procedural maps.\n\nThe GitHub link is: [https://github.com/osfv/talus](https://github.com/osfv/talus)\nIt's fully open source with the Apache License!\n\nWhat do you think i could improve on the model?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025619](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025619)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser", "canonical_source": "https://talus.tersa.tech/", "published_at": "2026-10-09 19:36:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-09 19:52:19.552314+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "machine-learning", "ai-tools", "neural-networks"], "entities": ["Talus", "osfv", "GitHub", "RTX 5060"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-talus-a-small-terrain-diffusion-model-that-runs-in-the-browser.jsonld"}}