Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work
by monocasa on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:54PM
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Well, for instance, it's the official policy of the IEEE to not allow this image in new publications. And they're far from the only journal (or set of journals) that have this policy.
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Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work
by groundzeros2015 on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:15PM
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Of course. Most people don’t care and a few vocal ones do.
As in most organizations that would know about it and come into contact with it.
Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work
by groundzeros2015 on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:23PM
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I think my comment is true of the graphics programming/research community.
Given that it's use is banned in most academic journals dealing with imaging/graphics, you'd be wrong.
And as several journals have brought up in the banning, it's not even good at what it purports to be for these use cases. It's a pretty poor quality image to start off with due to being scanned to a digital file with 1970s technology.
At this point the ones defending its continued use are the vocal minority on some weird anti-woke crusade that doesn't even make sense on technical grounds.
Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work
by groundzeros2015 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:44AM
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You’re using vocal minority framing right now. When I care about it, I’m a weird crusader for caring and noticing. But then you organize a campaign to change it.
There is a large body of literature using these images so it’s helpful to have a comparison which is persistent through time and familiar.
> Given that it's use is banned in most academic journals dealing with imaging/graphics, you'd be wrong.
Critical thinking caps required for this one.