Very neat. I just run some quick tests and I'm getting relatively good results on BC1 albedo data. Similar compression ratios as zstd at level 22. I haven't measured it, but I imagine compression and decompression are much faster. On BC4-5 data I usually get small increases in texture sizes, though.

There’s no problem in mountaineering that could not be solved by waking up earlier. My mistake was not checking the weather so I planned for a leisure start at 6am.

Dragon Peak, above the golden trout lakes. It’s accessed through the Onion Valley trailhead beet known for the Kearsarge pass trailhead. Dragon is just north of Gould and if I had been able to continue I would have traversed the ridge to Gould and dropped down to Kearsarge to return on a nicer trail

I think there’s some truth to that. Growing up in Sevilla I didn’t have air conditioning. It was considered a luxury. When we got one installed we didn’t use it very often, because energy prices were much higher.

I hear that playing the didgeridoo is also effective.

I'll be at SIGGRAPH next week. Hit me up if you'd like to chat about Spark or anything texture related!

And finally, I’m thrilled to welcome Infinite Flight and Netflix as new Spark licensees, and deeply grateful to HypeHype for their continued support.

Spark 1.3 also brings new codecs, quality improvements, and even more performance optimizations. For more details, see our blog post:

ludicon.com/castano/blog...

And you can evaluate the codecs directly in a WebGPU-enabled browser:

ludicon.com/sparkjs/view...

I am excited to bring the Spark codecs to the web and can’t wait to see what you build with it!

Checkout the GitHub repository to download or install the codecs.

github.com/ludicon/spar...