While removing this 2000 lines of code, I learned that Blender has a "FELINE" texture sampling filter, which unfortunately has nothing to do with 😻 and just means "fast elliptical lines". Anyway, it is now gone since it was unused for years. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139978
@aras REAL feline texture sampling would be where you place all the pixels on a shelf and then get your sample by seeing which ones get pushed off the edge.
@superpig but that would just sample all the texels, wouldn't it
@aras nah, at some point of one of the texels will make an unexpectedly loud noise upon hitting the ground, and further sampling will be aborted with haste and prejudice
@superpig @aras
I thought it's like a box filter, but as soon as you place the box all pixels crawl inside of it.