How Virtual Textures Really Work

Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work by monocasa on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:48PM (#46921401)

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.

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Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work by groundzeros2015 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:44AM (#46921631)

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.

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Re:How Virtual Textures Really Work by monocasa on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:10PM (#46925460)

I was repeating your framing.

> Most people don’t care and a few vocal ones do.

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