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 We currently only support CPU transcoding, but GPU assisted transcoding/format conversion is also possible by uploading the decompressed codebooks as textures and using compute shaders to convert the ETC1S data to the desired output format.
 
+### Special thanks
+Thanks to a number of companies or groups who have supported Binomial over the years, which helped fund this work: Intel, SpaceX, Netflix, Forgotten Empires, Microsoft, Polystream, Hothead Games, BioDigital, Magic Leap, Activision, and the organizers at CppCon.
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+Thanks to John Brooks at Blue Shift, Inc. for inspiring this work by showing me his Dreamcast texture compression system around 2002, and for releasing etc2comp. I first saw the subblock flip estimation approach (used in basisu_etc.cpp) in etc2comp.
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+Thanks to Colt McAnlis, for advertising one of my earlier open source texture compression libraries at GDC.
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+I first saw precomputed tables for computing optimal encodings of solid color blocks in ryg_dxt.
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 ### Possible improvements
 The current max codebook sizes are 8K. 12-16K codebooks would result in higher quality, but changes would be needed to the way delta indices are compressed.