Prepass
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A prior pass of an algorithm or process, sometimes as an optimization to handle simpler cases.
"If you're trying to render an image of 800 × 600 pixels and you do the prepass with just 200 × 150 pixels, then you'll see fewer details there and you can't place the sampling points as exactly."
Example
More examples"If you're trying to render an image of 800 × 600 pixels and you do the prepass with just 200 × 150 pixels, then you'll see fewer details there and you can't place the sampling points as exactly."
Etymology
From pre- + pass.
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