

I see. Surely that means that the source files have to be structured in a certain way then. If a design for a piece of print media was flattened to a single rasterised layer, or a video project had all the effects baked into the clips, a freelancer could deliver in the right format, but that file would be much less useful than if every operation was preserved non-destructively. I would think some artists wouldn’t want to just give away how they achieve certain effects.
I don’t know if that’s much of a thing in creative fields, or if there are conventions on things like keeping text as text, not editing it as vectors or pixels.
Nowhere is it stated how efficient either material is, other than to say that the researchers are 5-10 years away from a material that’s 10% efficient. So they must have an efficiency of less than that I guess.
From the paper, the closest I can see is:
I don’t know how representative that measurement is though.