"This is Unreal Engine's default texture," tweeted Sweeney. "I imported it into Unreal Engine 1 in 1995 while I was developing on a 90 MHz Pentium. It's still there and shows up when a programmer forgets to specify a texture."
"It's a stock photo of cave pearls, a kind of calcium carbonate deposit that forms in limestone caves," said Sweeney.
When asked, "Can I eat it?" the CEO replied, "Actually yes" and shared a link to the Wikipedia page for Tums, a heartburn medicine that contains calcium carbonate.
But it's still fun to get a direct answer from Sweeney and find out that this mold-like image is an odd, nostalgic artifact of the 1990s.
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