@INPROCEEDINGS{St02,
  author = {R. Strzodka},
  title = {Virtual 16 Bit Precise Operations on {RGBA8} Textures},
  booktitle = {Vision Modeling and Visualisation 2002},
  year = {2002},
  pages = {171--178},
  abstract = {There is a growing demand for high precision texture formats fed by
	the increasing number of textures per pixel and multi-pass algorithms
	in dynamic texturing and visualization. Therefore support for wider
	data formats in graphics hardware is evolving. The existing functionality
	of current graphics cards, however, can already be used to provide
	higher precision textures. This paper shows how to emulate a 16 bit
	precise signed format by use of RGBA8 textures and existing shader
	and register operations. Thereby a 16 bit number is stored in two
	unsigned 8 bit color channels. The focus lies on a 16 bit signed
	number format which generalizes existing 8 bit formats allowing lossless
	format expansions, and which has an exact representation of 1, 0
	and $-1$ allowing stable long-lasting dynamic texture updates. Implementations
	of basic arithmetic operations and dependent texture loop-ups in
	this format are presented and example algorithms dealing with 16
	bit precise dynamic updates of displacement maps, normal textures
	and filters demonstrate some of the resulting application areas.},
  pdf = {http://numod.ins.uni-bonn.de/research/papers/public/St02.pdf},
  html = {http://numerik.math.uni-duisburg.de/people/strzodka/projects/IP/}
}