I'm not asking if there's alpha, I'm asking why 40 bit instead of 32 bit. Most monitors (and definitely the rift) can't show 10bit per channel, nvidia and amd only enable 10 bit output on their pro cards (quadro and firepro respectively). If this is for the future, might as well go with a 64 bit deep colour or 128 bit floating point hdr colour.
"mstdesigns" wrote:
If we were to use voxels instead of current polygonal mapping, each cubic meter with 8192x8192x8192 voxels would need 512GB of data! :shock:
An 8192x8192x8192 cube of voxels at 40 bit is 2.56TB, not 512GB.
"mstdesigns" wrote:
If we were to enclose NYC in a cube, it would take up 1,213,000,000,000 cubic meters. That means we need about 1.2 Yottabytes of data to store NYC inside an ultra high definition minecraft world
Enclosing a 1213km^2 in a cube means the size is roughly 34828m x 34828m x 34828m. That's 96 yotta bytes (at 2.5TB per cubic metre).
At my max modem rate (I can get around 10Mbytes/s when really lucky), it would take 350 billion years to download 96 yotta bytes.
:D
