S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) (sometimes also called DXTn, DXTC, or BCn) is a group of related lossy texture compression algorithms originally developed by Iourcha et al. of S3 Graphics, Ltd.[1][2] for use in their Savage 3D computer graphics accelerator. The method of compression is strikingly similar to the previously published Color Cell Compression,[3] which is in turn an adaptation of Block Truncation Coding published in the late 1970s. Unlike some image compression algorithms (e.g. JPEG), S3TC's fixed-rate data compression coupled with the single memory access (cf. Color Cell Compression and some VQ-based schemes) made it well-suited for use in compressing textures in hardware-accelerated 3D computer graphics. Its subsequent inclusion in Microsoft's DirectX 6.0 and OpenGL 1.3 (via the GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc extension) led to widespread adoption of the technology among hardware and software makers. While S3 Graphics is no longer a competitor in the graphics accelerator market, license fees have been levied and collected for the use of S3TC technology until October 2017, for example in game consoles and graphics cards. The wide use of S3TC has led to a de facto requirement for OpenGL drivers to support it, but the patent-encumbered status of S3TC presented a major obstacle to open source implementations,[4] while implementation approaches which tried to avoid the patented parts existed.[5]
^US 5956431 "Fixed-rate block-based image compression with inferred pixel values"
^US 5956431, Iourcha, Konstantine I.; Nayak, Krishna S. & Hong, Zhou, "System and method for fixed-rate block-based image compression with inferred pixel values", published Sep 21, 1999
S3TextureCompression (S3TC) (sometimes also called DXTn, DXTC, or BCn) is a group of related lossy texturecompression algorithms originally developed...
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early forerunner of modern texturecompression algorithms, such as S3TextureCompression and Adaptive Scalable TextureCompression. It is closely related...
below expectations, and buggy drivers caused further problems. S3TextureCompression went on to become an industry standard, and the Savage3D's DVD acceleration...
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exchange for the time-to-market advantage to the licensing vendor. S3texturecompression support was one such feature, renamed as DXTC for purposes of inclusion...
memory 576 KB texture cache (96 KB per quad of pixel pipelines) Support for PSGL (OpenGL ES 1.1 + Nvidia Cg) Support for S3TextureCompression Other features:...
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does support texture format extensions (via FourCC). These were once little-known and rarely used, but are now used for S3TextureCompression. When graphics...
roughly 14 million, compared to Voodoo3's ~8 million. The chip has a larger texture cache than its predecessors and the data paths are 32 bits wide rather...
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in most accelerators. In particular, texturecompression is now widely used. On more recent cards, compression has also been used on the z-buffers to...
in the App Manager allows for publishing Verge3D applications via Amazon S3 and EC2 cloud services.[citation needed] PBR For purposes of authoring materials...
division to Qualcomm. Support up to 320x240 Defender3 and Stargate have Texturecompression Adreno 130 is rebrand of Imageon 3D All models support the following...
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earliest mobile phones with more than one rear camera. The 2012 Samsung Galaxy S3 introduced the ability to capture photos using voice commands. In 2012 Nokia...
including anti aliasing and tri linear mip mapping. In the same vein as the S3 ViRGE chip, the Warp 5 was pin-compatible with a 2D-only predecessor. Technologies...
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