Features Flashcards

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What is vertex shading?

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Defining vertices by coordinates, colors, textures and lighting. Examples: breathe life and personality into characters and environments, such as fog that dips into a valley and curls over a hill; or true-to-life facial animation such as dimples or wrinkles that appear when a character smiles

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CGI?

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computer-generated imagery

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3
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Specular highlight?

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is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated

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CUDA™?

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is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).

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Shading?

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shading refers to the process of altering the color of an object/surface/polygon in the 3D scene, based on its angle to lights and its distance from lights to create a photorealistic effect.

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Rendering?

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is the process of generating an image from a model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. it would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information as a description of the virtual scene.

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CMYK

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cyan, magenta, yellow and black, historically printing.

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RGB

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Red, Green, and Blue, historically screens

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9
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Hex color code

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can be hex or decimal value

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10
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Lossless

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lets you recreate the original file exactly. All lossless compression is based on the idea of breaking a file into a “smaller” form for transmission or storage and then putting it back together on the other end so it can be used again.

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Lossy

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These programs simply eliminate “unnecessary” bits of information, tailoring the file so that it is smaller.

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