Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or art of making inlaid work with tesseræ.
- noun The work so produced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The property or fact of
tessellating . - noun countable A
tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane. - noun uncountable A less common name for polygon tessellation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern
- noun the act of adorning with mosaic
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Examples
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Of note: we performed these tests at Moderate tessellation, which is generally indicative of the level of tessellation we'd see in games today.
PCWorld 2010
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The 460's support for DX11 features such as tessellation and compute shaders allow Civilization V to run faster while looking better than ever. '
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Instead, it will be replaced with a multicolored triangle described as a "tessellation,"
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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For those who are not familiar, NVIDIA's GF100 GPU was their first graphics processor to support DirectX-11 hardware features such as tessellation and
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For those who are not familiar, NVIDIA's GF100 GPU is their first graphics processor to support DirectX-11 hardware features such as tessellation and DirectCompute, while also adding heavy particle and turbulence effects.
OCTools 2010
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XNA Game Studio 4.0 won't allow devs to take advantage of DX features such as tessellation and displacement.
Softpedia - Windows - All Marius Oiaga 2010
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Extensions, such as tessellation, allow developers to take full advantage of powerful ATI FirePro graphics accelerators that provide performance, stability and visionary innovation for graphics professionals.
India Press Release 2009
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Extensions, such as tessellation, allow developers to take full advantage of powerful
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Extensions, such as tessellation, allow developers to take full advantage of powerful
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AMD's OpenGL extensions such as tessellation help Redway3d support that customer commitment.
India Press Release 2009
oroboros commented on the word tessellation
See an animated one here.
December 23, 2009