Re: Misc: Applications of small floating point formats.

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 00:47:56 -0500, BGB wrote:

There are shadows, but given there are not any obvious gradients in
the shadows; they could likely have been pulled off using the
stencil buffer.

There are offline renderers that are built on similar principles to
video-game engines. That’s not the same as using OpenGL for offscreen
rendering.

I know because I did some experiments along these lines when I was
learning Android programming. OpenGL engines tend not to prioritize
efficient retrieval of rendered images back into program-local
offscreen buffers.

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I think, back in those early days, OpenGL was seriously considered for
use as an offline rendering engine.

Not any more, though.