Glossary of Terms

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List of Technical Art Terms¶

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

A¶

API (Application Programming Interface)

B¶

Barycentric Coordinates

Blob Detection

C¶

Callback

Cascade Pose Regression

Compute Shaders

Convolve

CPU- or GPU-Bound

D¶

Distance Field

E¶

Event Listener

F¶

Foveation

G¶

Geometry Shaders

H¶

Hysteresis

I¶

J¶

K¶

L¶

Laplace Operator

M¶

MaterialX

Microservice

Migration Path

N¶

O¶

Optical Flow

P¶

Package Server

Parse

Prim

Plates (Facial-Capture Animation)

Proc Hours

Q¶

Quantized Mesh

Quantized Quaternion

Qt

R¶

Radial Sorting

Raymarching

Relaxed Cone Mapping

ROMs (Range of Motion)

S¶

Serialization

Shadow Cache

Smoke Testing

Sparse Volume

Spatializing

Spherical Harmonics

Surface Shader

T¶

Texture Array

U¶

Unit Testing

uRPC

V¶

VATs (Vertex Animation Textures)

Vertex Stream

Virtual Function

Virtual Texture

W¶

X¶

Y¶

Z¶