> The result was visually striking. Repeating tile patterns disappeared, and artists could paint unique detail across large environments without concern for reuse. The primary cost was not GPU throughput, but latency elsewhere in the system.
No, the primary "cost" was artists having to fill a world with unlimited textures instead of just filling memory and then having to make due.
The constraint of "limited texture memory budget" also puts a constraint on how much work the artists can do. Remove that constraint lets artists do unlimited work. It might sound like a plus because "freedom!" but it turns into a minus trying to actually ship on time and at budget.
I get that wasn't the point of the article's "cost", but thought it was worth mentioning.
Probably just Aspie, judging by some of their other writing (including their About page). I've seen Aspie writing misidentified as LLM output surprisingly often.
“Good portion of the world” is probably a handful of people.
Her full quote btw:
“Once upon a time, I was the centerfold of Playboy,” says the former model in the new documentary Losing Lena. “But I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too.”
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.
A copyrighted image of a nude model elected for no obvious reason has a test image in the University of South California by some pervs and then used in a lot of papers as a test image.
Or, a standard cropped image of a playgirl used in the field of image processing.
> The result was visually striking. Repeating tile patterns disappeared, and artists could paint unique detail across large environments without concern for reuse. The primary cost was not GPU throughput, but latency elsewhere in the system.
No, the primary "cost" was artists having to fill a world with unlimited textures instead of just filling memory and then having to make due.
The constraint of "limited texture memory budget" also puts a constraint on how much work the artists can do. Remove that constraint lets artists do unlimited work. It might sound like a plus because "freedom!" but it turns into a minus trying to actually ship on time and at budget.
I get that wasn't the point of the article's "cost", but thought it was worth mentioning.
The pop-in and stuttering with RAGE was pretty bad. They finally dropped this method of virtual texturing in Doom Eternal.
Time budgets still exist.
This just let you do things like many layers of baked in multi texturing in places where artists had previously ran into engine constraints.
Honestly, having to "make do" when your budget was full probably took more time trying to find neat hacks.
> Texture binds multiply. Draw calls explode. Bandwidth usage spikes. You spend more time feeding the GPU than rendering.
Is this AI?
Its just a casual writing style, written like how you might describe it verbally to imply the list of ill effects goes on and on.
This is a common rhetorical device for humans named parataxis.
Probably just Aspie, judging by some of their other writing (including their About page). I've seen Aspie writing misidentified as LLM output surprisingly often.
Like Vulcans and Data.
A good portion of the world and Lenna herself have asked that image be retired.
Best replacement I've seen: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
“Good portion of the world” is probably a handful of people.
Her full quote btw:
“Once upon a time, I was the centerfold of Playboy,” says the former model in the new documentary Losing Lena. “But I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too.”
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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Now at least parts of it are paged out...
Who is Lenna?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
A copyrighted image of a nude model elected for no obvious reason has a test image in the University of South California by some pervs and then used in a lot of papers as a test image.
Or, a standard cropped image of a playgirl used in the field of image processing.
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The eponymous woman in the Playboy photograph.
Which image?
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