/** * Unpack an IEEE 754 single-precision float that is packed as a little-endian unsigned normalized vec4. * * @name czm_unpackFloat * @glslFunction * * @param {vec4} packedFloat The packed float. * * @returns {float} The floating-point depth in arbitrary range. */ float czm_unpackFloat(vec4 packedFloat) { // Convert to [0.0, 255.0] and round to integer packedFloat = floor(packedFloat * 255.0 + 0.5); float sign = 1.0 - step(128.0, packedFloat[3]) * 2.0; float exponent = 2.0 * mod(packedFloat[3], 128.0) + step(128.0, packedFloat[2]) - 127.0; if (exponent == -127.0) { return 0.0; } float mantissa = mod(packedFloat[2], 128.0) * 65536.0 + packedFloat[1] * 256.0 + packedFloat[0] + float(0x800000); float result = sign * exp2(exponent - 23.0) * mantissa; return result; }