Method for improved handling of texture data for texturing and other image processing tasks

A computer-implemented method of processing textures to determine a sample, the method comprising:

• under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions:
• receive a filter region representation, wherein the filter region representation comprises computer-readable data corresponding to sample region of a virtual mapping to be sampled;
• determining a first texture dataset;
• determining a filter kernel for the filter region representation, the filter kernel corresponding to the sample region, wherein the filter kernel comprises one or more kernel weights over the sample region;
• storing the filter kernel;
• determining a subset of the first texture dataset upon which the filter kernel is to be applied;
• storing a schedule of the subset, wherein positions of texels within the first texture dataset are determinable from the schedule;
• applying the schedule and the filter kernel to the first texture dataset to determine a first texture contribution for the sample region;
• determining a second texture dataset;
• applying the schedule and the filter kernel to the second texture dataset to determine a second texture contribution for the sample region;
• and
• combining the first texture contribution and the second texture contribution to determine an overall accumulated output for the sample region as the sample.