What does "g-buffer" mean?

A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading rendering pipelines.

G-buffer

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Noun

1
A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading rendering pipelines.

Etymology

The G stands for geometry.

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