[sldev] Plausibility of 16-bit sculpts?

[intertricity at gmail.com]

Hey guys, so I've been thinking more and more about how nice it would be to  
not have wrinkling when I space two verts too close together. 1024  
positions of precision is sounding -really- nice about now :) I was  
wondering if anyone has also been thinking about a 16-bit or higher  
implementation, and how to go about it?

I'm not a coder, but as far as I know, JPEG2000 supports 16-bit depth, and  
as far as traffic concerns go, for a while, sculptors were using 128x128  
and 256x256 image sizes- a 16-bit 64x64 shouldn't pose any difference in  
that perspective.

Thoughts? Input? Ideas? Enlightenment? :)
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