different between aliasing vs mipmap

English

Verb

aliasing

1. present participle of alias

Noun

aliasing (plural aliasings)

1. (signal processing, graphics, sound recording) Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, such as a moiré effect or jaggies.

Derived terms

• anti-aliasing

Translations

See also

• aliasing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From English aliasing.

Noun

aliasing m (uncountable)

1. (signal processing, graphics, sound recording) aliasing (distortion caused by a low sampling rate)

   Synonyms: serrilhado, serrilhamento

English

Etymology

Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.

Pronunciation

Noun

mipmap (plural mipmaps)

1. (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)

1. (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.