[vorbis-dev] video compression using textured polygons?

[jsr at dds.nl]

I was just thinking last night, how about this:

For each frame, detect edges and divide the frame into a 
bunch of non-overlapping polygons. Extract textures from 
the first frame, then save changes in polygon vertex 
coordinates only, unless the textures change too much in 
which case new textures (which could be wavelet compressed) 
would be stored.

Also, if the movements of the vertices would be taken 
across multiple frames they could be expressed as splines, 
causing more compression.

I realise that this is quite a lot like mpeg 4, with its 
sprites and body objects, but I think it's more generic. 
And it has the added bonus of being able to do playback 
hardware-accelerated on standard 3D hardware.

Problems I foresee: edges may look too sharp, or if the 
polygons don't have enough edges too straight. Also the 
frame-to-frame matching of polygons absolutely needs to be 
correct or things go wrong spectacularly.

Well, any thoughts are welcome.

Lourens

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