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Glossary

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   MSAA

      Multi-Sampled Anti-Aliasing. A basic anti-aliasing technique that takes

      multiple samples of the depth buffer, and uses this information to

      smooth the edges of polygons.

   TCL

      Transform, Clipping, & Lighting. The three stages of preparation in a

      rasterizing pipeline prior to the actual rasterization of vertices into

      fragments.

   NPOT

      Non-power-of-two. Usually applied to textures which have at least one

      dimension which is not a power of two.

   LOD

      Level of Detail. Also spelled "LoD." The value that determines when the

      switches between mipmaps occur during texture sampling.

   layer

      This term is used as the name of the "3rd coordinate" of a resource.

      3D textures have zslices, cube maps have faces, 1D and 2D array textures

      have array members (other resources do not have multiple layers).

      Since the functions only take one parameter no matter what type of

      resource is used, use the term "layer" instead of a resource type

      specific one.

   GLSL

      GL Shading Language. The official, common high-level shader language used

      in GL 2.0 and above.