[sldev] Plausibility of 16-bit sculpts?

[Glen]

Ouch. Best I can say. 6fps is bad bad bad. Sculpts help to break my 
viewer and bring it to its knees, 16-bit sculpts will hurt it even 
worse. Wait until the worst performance is around 15-20 fps on the worst 
hardware *then* consider it.

--GC

intertricity at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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