Features Flashcards
What is vertex shading?
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
CGI?
computer-generated imagery
Specular highlight?
is the bright spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated
CUDA™?
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).
Shading?
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.
Rendering?
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.
CMYK
cyan, magenta, yellow and black, historically printing.
RGB
Red, Green, and Blue, historically screens
Hex color code
can be hex or decimal value
Lossless
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.
Lossy
These programs simply eliminate “unnecessary” bits of information, tailoring the file so that it is smaller.