# Show HN: Talus, a small terrain diffusion model that runs in the browser

> Source: <https://talus.tersa.tech/>
> Published: 2026-10-09 19:36:11+00:00

Talus is a small diffusion model that makes game heightmaps and runs entirely in the browser.

try it at: [https://talus.tersa.tech](https://talus.tersa.tech)

It has 23M parameters and it was trained from scratch. The training data was 45K maps from my own generator.

I 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).

It's limits are the 64x64 maps, and it was only trained on procedural maps.

The GitHub link is: [https://github.com/osfv/talus](https://github.com/osfv/talus)
It's fully open source with the Apache License!

What do you think i could improve on the model?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025619](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025619)

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