| Glossary |
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| .. glossary:: |
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| MSAA |
| Multi-Sampled Anti-Aliasing. A basic anti-aliasing technique that takes |
| multiple samples of the depth buffer, and uses this information to |
| smooth the edges of polygons. |
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| TCL |
| Transform, Clipping, & Lighting. The three stages of preparation in a |
| rasterizing pipeline prior to the actual rasterization of vertices into |
| fragments. |
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| NPOT |
| Non-power-of-two. Usually applied to textures which have at least one |
| dimension which is not a power of two. |
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| LOD |
| Level of Detail. Also spelled "LoD." The value that determines when the |
| switches between mipmaps occur during texture sampling. |
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| layer |
| This term is used as the name of the "3rd coordinate" of a resource. |
| 3D textures have zslices, cube maps have faces, 1D and 2D array textures |
| have array members (other resources do not have multiple layers). |
| Since the functions only take one parameter no matter what type of |
| resource is used, use the term "layer" instead of a resource type |
| specific one. |
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| GLSL |
| GL Shading Language. The official, common high-level shader language used |
| in GL 2.0 and above. |
