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checkerboard rendering

checkerboard rendering noun: a rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.

Noun

checkerboard rendering (uncountable)

  1. A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.
    • Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491
    Synonyms:
    checkerboarding

Synonyms of checkerboard rendering

Questions about checkerboard rendering

What does checkerboard rendering mean?
Checkerboard rendering means a rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.
What part of speech is checkerboard rendering?
Checkerboard rendering is a noun.

Words near checkerboard rendering in the dictionary

  1. checkerberries
  2. checkerberry
  3. checkerbloom
  4. checkerblooms
  5. checkerboard
  6. checkerboard rendering
  7. checkerboarded
  8. checkerboardedness
  9. checkerboarding
  10. checkerboards
  11. checkered

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