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mipmap en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From mip (an acronym of Latin multum in parvo (“much in little”), referring to many images in a small space) + map, modelled on bitmap.

Meanings

  1. A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.

Forms

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mipmaps Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (2)

fi MIP-kartta (Translations) · fi mipmap (Translations)

mipmap en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From mip (an acronym of Latin multum in parvo (“much in little”), referring to many images in a small space) + map, modelled on bitmap.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To precalculate images for a texture in this manner.
    • The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter. 2004, Wolfgang Heidrich, Ravin Balakrishnan, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, Graphics Interface 2004: proceedings, page 167:

Forms

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mipmapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mipmaps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
mipmapped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
mipmapped Tense=Past lexicographic