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mipmap

Definitions

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

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • A mipmap is a precalculated copy of an image that has been shrunk to a lower resolution using a more accurate, higher quality filtering algorithm than would be possible in realtime on the GPU.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • This new version of Mutter offers improved appearance of scaled down windows using mipmap emulation, new signals and properties, merging of Metacity changes since the 2.26 release, and many fixes

    Phoronix 2010

  • The reason for mipmap in GIMP brush painting we have, was to increase the quality of the scaled brushes as Adrian Page, hacker in the Krita team, wrote me in an email.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • Also the returned pointer (from lock) will only cover the smaller data of the mipmap level dimension chosen

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • The reason for mipmap in GIMP brush painting we have, was to increase the quality of the scaled brushes as Adrian Page, hacker in the Krita team, wrote me in an email.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • The reason for mipmap in GIMP brush painting we have, was to increase the quality of the scaled brushes as Adrian Page, hacker in the Krita team, wrote me in an email.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • · Lets you view and edit the attachment graph for a selected set of actors mipmap sharpening

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Games 2010

  • I had RGBA murrine transparency enabled, set blur windows with mipmap filter to 4 but i couldn't get the same result as yours.

    GNOME-Look.org Content 2010

  • The reason for mipmap in GIMP brush painting we have, was to increase the quality of the scaled brushes as Adrian Page, hacker in the Krita team, wrote me in an email.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • I had RGBA murrine transparency enabled, set blur windows with mipmap filter to 4 but i couldn't get the same result as yours.

    Xfce-Look.org Content 2010

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