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One part of this: "We moved to encoding our normals as a two component, 16 bits per channel, vector using Octahedral Mapping. Tangents are encoded into four channels: 10 bits per channel for the basis vector components and 2 bits to store the tangent basis determinant sign. This encoding gave us a good balance between decompression ALU and quality."