Ignacio Castano🍉
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Ignacio Castano🍉
@icastano.bsky.social
Master swimmer, mountain climber, and stand up coder.
I work on texture processing tools at Ludicon.
Formerly at Roblox, Thekla (The Witness), NVIDIA, OddWorld, Relic, Crytek.
Hi Vancouver!
August 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And finally, I’m thrilled to welcome Infinite Flight and Netflix as new Spark licensees, and deeply grateful to HypeHype for their continued support.
August 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
spark.js wraps a subset of these codecs with a simple and lightweight API. Making it easy to use modern image formats for storage and delivery and transcode them at runtime to more efficient GPU formats. This is literally free bandwidth!
August 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
✔ New platforms: Now supports Android TV and consoles.
March 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
✔ New codecs: HDR support through RGBM formats, ETC2, BC3-YCoCg, ASTC 6×6, and sideband codecs for transcoding.
March 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
✔ Massive performance improvements thanks to extensive f16 vectorization.
March 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wide hardware support:

We have validated the codecs on a wide range of devices, collaborated with IHVs and other partners to guarantee excellent support, and developed solutions to the numerous device idiosyncrasies.
February 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM