I enjoyed this 41 minute documentary filmed before the E3 2005 reveal of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvm0...
Found it funny how they staged a scene of artists traveling to Washington D.C. to capture textures for the game's Imperial City.
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The Making of Oblivion (FULL | HQ | ENG)
Making of GOTY 2006
![A number line where 3-bit integers in the range [0..7] being mapped to real numbers with two approaches: the standard (top) and alternative (bottom).
On the X-axis we’ve got a number line and the locations of brown circles on it represent the decoded floating-point values. The numbers inside are the integer inputs. Each integer has arrows pointing to it; these show a range of floating-point values that round to it. I’ll call these ranges “bins” in the rest of this article.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gv6v7fo4tpkf3kjrdd4l2igh/bafkreieevjv442rgw34wyjn7ia77sban54wmfoq2k2awstmk4o7k3bo4zm)
![A screenshot of code that says:
/**
* The ZX has one bit per pixel, but can assign two colours to an 8x8 block. The
* two colours must both be 'regular' or 'bright'. Black exists as both regular
* and bright.
*/
val zx_quantize(std::string rawimage, int image_width, int image_height, float dithering) {
auto image_buffer = (const liq_color*)rawimage.c_str();
int size = image_width * image_height;
liq_color block[8 * 8];
uint8_t image8bit[8 * 8];
std::vector<liq_color> result(size);
// For each 8x8 grid
for (int block_start_y = 0; block_start_y < image_height; block_start_y += 8) {
for (int block_start_x = 0; block_start_x < image_width; block_start_x += 8) {
int color_popularity[15] = {0};](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gv6v7fo4tpkf3kjrdd4l2igh/bafkreibjpuv3zvaeynqklnzt5ri322tnj244bsbiriilw7mknqc3mzkpna)
