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Surface caching - Definition |
| Related Words: Area, Arise, Border, Boundary, Circumference, Clerestory, Come, Concrete, Continuum, Cortex, Cortical |
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Surface caching is a computer graphics technique pioneered by John Carmack, first used in the computer game Quake. The traditional method of lighting a surface is to calculate the surface from the perspective of the viewer, and then apply the lighting to the surface. Carmack's technique was to light the surface independent of the viewer, and store that surface in a cache. The lighted surface could then be used in the normal rendering pipeline for any number of frames.
Surface caching is one of the reasons that it became practical to make a true 3D game that was reasonably fast on a 66Mhz Pentium microprocessor.
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Example Usage of Surface |
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PchiniBuzzBox: Electronista-Nexus One, Android 2.1 Surface in video walkthrough http://bit.ly/52CnQV |
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ShhDragon: I toss the pebble,
Ripples distort the Surface,
Flowing back to self
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fullyexplained: The Anatomy Of A Hole: Author : Art GibSmall divots in a road Surface can quickly become large potholes As a puddl... http://bit.ly/5pi8Q0 |
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