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Re:Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2 by rasz on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:22PM (#18949266)
Shipping size is usually not the limiting factor for texture size, GPU memory is. Texture compression must work on small blocks for random pixel addressing.
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Re:Q2VKPT: Fully path traced Quake 2 by 0-_-0 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:15AM (#18952301)
Which doesn't entirely rule out a deep learning based compressor, just makes it much harder :)
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