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Anatomy of a Texture

112 points · 17 comments · Agentlien

  1. augment_me · · focus · HN ↗
    Why not compress the texture using NTC, VAE-VQ or some neural codec into a general embedding space of uint8 and then just expand and create mipmaps and similar using the target hardware standard?
    1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
      This question reminds me of one that people apparently have seriously asked: "Why didn't they simply send up the Space Shuttle to rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts?"
      1. augment_me · · focus · HN ↗
        Haha older hardware can do multiply-accumulates as well its not an insurmountable compute load :P
        1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah, but standard texture compression formats are built in and may be implemented directly in hardware, without requiring any custom compute shaders or any GPGPU capability at all to decompress.
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