hypertexture

A realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.

Noun

  1. A realistic simulated surface texture produced by adding small distortions across the surface of an object.
    • The cost is high for this function, as it uses noise() many times to calculate the hypertexture. - 2000, Anthony A. Apodaca, Larry Gritz, Ronen Barzel, Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures, →ISBN, page...
    • In 1989, Perlin and Hoffert presented hypertexture, a modeling technique where an ordinary surface is thickened into a region of space with some density. - 2002, Marc Olano, John Hart, Wolfgang Heidrich, Real-Time...
    • The volume density functions that I use for gases are, in reality, hypertexture functions. - 2009, Rick Parent, David S. Ebert, David Gould, Computer Animation Complete: All-in-One, →ISBN, page 218:

Origin

From hyper- + texture.

Forms

hypertextures

Verb

  1. To apply a hypertexture to.

Forms

hypertextures hypertexturing hypertextured