{"slug": "neural-texture-compression-for-three-js", "title": "Neural Texture Compression for Three.js", "summary": "A new three.js implementation of NVIDIA's 2023 Neural Texture Compression paper represents materials as a tiny neural network instead of full-resolution textures, cutting memory and download size. Each compressed material is about 93KB, allowing scenes to include richer materials without large footprints.", "body_md": "A three.js implementation of [NVIDIA's 2023 Neural Texture Compression paper](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/neural_texture_compression/). It represents materials as a tiny neural network instead of a stack of full-resolution textures, dramatically cutting memory and download size so scenes can carry much richer materials without blowing up their footprint.\n\nNTC compresses every texture of a material — albedo, normal, roughness, metalness, and more — together into a single representation, often smaller than just one texture of the original material. The materials below are each about 93KB.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neural-texture-compression-for-three-js", "canonical_source": "https://three-ntc.ben3d.ca", "published_at": "2026-09-09 18:50:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 19:10:43.294369+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "neural-networks", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["NVIDIA", "three.js"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neural-texture-compression-for-three-js", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neural-texture-compression-for-three-js.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neural-texture-compression-for-three-js.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neural-texture-compression-for-three-js.jsonld"}}