Mipmap

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.
Verb
  1. 1
    To precalculate images for a texture in this manner. transitive

    "The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter."

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"The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter."

Etymology

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

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