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mipmap

noun, verb — 2 senses

mipmap

noun

Etymology Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.

1

Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.

mipmap

verb

Etymology Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.

1

Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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:

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