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Basis Universal GPU Texture Codec

17 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-05-22 · latest 2026-07-14

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  1. …weird omission taht basis_universal isn't mentioned at all? Can also target Khronos's ktx2 too. https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-03-29 · in Hardware Image Compression
  2. Is this similar to Basis ? https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
    comment by ttoinou · 2025-10-06 · in OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
  3. How does this compare to Basis Universal encoding? https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
    comment by ImHereToVote · 2025-03-09 · in Spark Texture Compression 1.2
  4. …efficient to transcode to various compressed GPU formats (for both desktop and mobile) on the fly. https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal Delivering images in a GPU-friendly manner on the web could be a massive memory saver…
    comment by jsheard · 2023-04-03 · in Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs
  5. …a ton of GPU memory and texture sampling bandwidth. (these are probably better alternatives: https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal , or http://www.radgametools.com/oodletexture.htm )
    comment by flohofwoe · 2023-01-18 · in Hello, PNG
  6. …to decode on the fly to one of the hardware texture formats (but there are now alternatives like https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal ), but even a generic lossless compressor (even good old zip) on top of BCx is already a good…
    comment by flohofwoe · 2022-12-18 · in Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
  7. …gpu-oriented compression techs. TIL Basis/KTX2 is itself zstd compressed (formerly LZ apparently?). https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
    comment by rektide · 2022-11-22 · in Brotli-G: A GPU compression/decompression standard for digital assets
  8. …, let it load then hit the play button! [3] - https://www.sps2022.com/post/3d [4] - https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal [5] - https://qoiformat.org/
    comment by closedcontour · 2022-07-06 · in Show HN: 3D live tracking two climbers attempting a Sierra Nevada record
  9. I wouldn't call Oodle Texture a hack. But there's also https://github.com/BinomialLLC/crunch and https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal . The latter has the advantage that it can be decoded to multiple different compressed texture…
    comment by modeless · 2021-12-20 · in The QOI File Format Specification
  10. …reduction (RGBA8888 vs. PVTRC4). However, I've heard that Netflix was one of the first sponsors of https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal They are shipping innumerable images to a huge variety of underpowered set top boxes. Totally…
    comment by corysama · 2021-06-05 · in John Carmack on JPEG
  11. …the bottom of the post pointing to the Basis Universal repository (which is a texture compressor)? https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/tree/master/w... Copy-pasta error, or did they run the post through Lyra? ;)
    comment by flohofwoe · 2021-04-06 · in Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
  12. From their readme at https://github.com/binomialLLC/basis_universal Basis Universal Supercompressed GPU Texture Codec Basis Universal is a "supercompressed" GPU texture compression system that outputs a highly compressed intermediate file…
    comment by froh · 2020-03-21 · in Google and Binomial partner to open source high quality Basis Universal
  13. …I would imagine that would be even faster, although at the cost of higher texture memory usage. [1] https://github.com/binomialLLC/basis_universal#quick-basis-f... [2] https://github.com/BinomialLLC/crunch
    comment by 60654 · 2019-05-23 · in Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format
  14. That paper described the inspiration for Basis, but Basis itself is slightly different. https://github.com/binomialLLC/basis_universal#quick-basis-f... > Internally, Basis files are composed of a non-uniform texture array of one or more 2D…
    comment by Scaevolus · 2019-05-22 · in Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format