Procedural Textures: Gaming's Future

Procedural Textures: Gaming's Future

Allegorithmic has a new technology that it says can make games up to 90% smaller by replacing bitmap textures with mathematically generated ones - and has already seen its technology incorporated by small games publishers. Could this be the future for texturing?

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/11/09/Procedural_Textures_Future_Gam/1