mipmap
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English
Etymology
Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.
Pronunciation
Noun
mipmap (plural mipmaps)
- (computer graphics) A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.
Verb
mipmap (third-person singular simple present mipmaps, present participle mipmapping, simple past and past participle mipmapped)
- (computer graphics, transitive) To precalculate images for a texture in this manner.
- 2004, Wolfgang Heidrich, Ravin Balakrishnan, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, Graphics Interface 2004: proceedings, page 167:
- The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter.