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bump mapping

bump mapping noun: a technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to each pixel, based on a texture map, prior to calculating the illumination, so as to produce a richer, more detailed surface representation.

bump mapping: a technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to...
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Noun

bump mapping (uncountable)

  1. A technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to each pixel, based on a texture map, prior to calculating the illumination, so as to produce a richer, more detailed surface representation.

Words formed from bump mapping

Questions about bump mapping

What does bump mapping mean?
Bump mapping means a technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to each pixel, based on a texture map, prior to calculating the illumination, so as to produce a richer, more detailed surface representation.
What part of speech is bump mapping?
Bump mapping is a noun.

Words near bump mapping in the dictionary

  1. bump firing
  2. bump in the road
  3. bump into
  4. bump key
  5. bump keys
  6. bump mapping
  7. bump n' grind
  8. bump nasties
  9. bump off
  10. bump on
  11. bump on the road

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