Users of Reddit know it's a great place to go to check out new Minecraft builds and tips. One can present photos or videos of their worlds for other users to admire. One particular user, u/Waspycraft1 ...

Mojang will soon release the Minecraft 1.20 Trails and Tales update, which is expected to feature loads of blocks, items, mobs, and biomes. Two of the new blocks are suspicious sand and suspicious ...

AMD is set to reveal a research paper about its technique for neural texture block compression at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) next week. It sounds like some technobabble, but the ...

Game sizes are increasing as fidelity increases, and even though 'block compression' is used to reduce the overall size of textures, the fixed compression ratio can only do so much when dealing with ...

At Siggraph 2023, NVIDIA announced its new AI-powered Neural Texture Compression (NTC) to reduce texture sizes without sacrificing detail. This would mean download and install sizes for games like ...

Something to look forward to: High-resolution textures are a primary factor behind the growing install sizes and VRAM usage in modern blockbuster games. Nvidia proposed a neural-network-based method ...

Many designers for the virtual world find it challenging to design efficiently believable complex textures or patterns on a large scale. Indeed, so-called 'texture synthesis,' the design of accurate ...