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Originally Posted by Quarkboy
I wonder if it's not time for some enterprising genius to start developing a non-macroblock based video compression algorithm and really get away from mpeg once and for all.
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Like Dirac/Schroedinger?
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Originally Posted by Quarkboy
Shouldn't there be some reasonable way of describing a grid using n-gons and tessellations? combined with a final ray-trace to recover pixels? The you use some kind of tree structure as a scan algorithm to go through touching triangles. Triangle prediction modes could be similar to mpeg for intra (based on extending the pixels along the matching edge, etc), and motion prediction could be based off motion of the triangle boundary vertices through the time axis instead of motion vectors of the blocks themselves...
The trick would be to construct it in a way that uses mainly integer arithmetic...
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I'm not sure if n-gons have any tangible benefit over squares, other than avoiding square macroblocks. Octrees might be useful for some scenes (time being the third dimension), but not in the general case.