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hypertexture

hypertexture noun: a realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.

Noun

hypertexture (plural hypertextures)

  1. A realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.
    • The cost is high for this function, as it uses noise() many times to calculate the hypertexture.2000, Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz, Ronen Barzel, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, →ISBN, page 417
    • In 1989, Perlin and Hoffert presented hypertexture, a modeling technique where an ordinary surface is thickened into a region of space with some density.2002, Marc Olano, John Hart, Wolfgang Heidrich, Real-Time Shading, →ISBN, page 86

Verb

hypertexture (third-person singular simple present hypertextures, present participle hypertexturing, simple past and past participle hypertextured)

  1. (transitive) To apply a hypertexture to.

Examples of hypertexture in a sentence

  • The volume density functions that I use for gases are, in reality, hypertexture functions.2009, Rick Parent, David S. Ebert, David Gould, Computer Animation Complete: All-in-One, →ISBN, page 218:
  • Then, for each type of hypertexture, I construct a different "application" code, describing a particular hypertexture.2014, David S. Ebert, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, →ISBN, page 203:

Forms of hypertexture

Noun
pluralhypertextures
Verb
third-person singular presenthypertextures
present participlehypertexturing
past participlehypertextured
pasthypertextured

Origin of hypertexture

From hyper- + texture.

Questions about hypertexture

What does hypertexture mean?
Hypertexture means a realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.
How do you use hypertexture in a sentence?
The volume density functions that I use for gases are, in reality, hypertexture functions.
What part of speech is hypertexture?
Hypertexture can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of hypertexture?
The plural of hypertexture is hypertextures.

Words near hypertexture in the dictionary

  1. hypertextualize
  2. hypertextualized
  3. hypertextualizes
  4. hypertextualizing
  5. hypertextually
  6. hypertexture
  7. hypertextured
  8. hypertextures
  9. hypertexturing
  10. hyperthalamic
  11. hypertheatrical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypertexture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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