• Pixel buffer or pBuffer is a feature in OpenGL and OpenGL ES platform interfaces which allows for off-screen rendering. It is specified as an extension...
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    stencil buffer is an extra data buffer, in addition to the color buffer and Z-buffer, found on modern graphics hardware. The buffer is per pixel and works...
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    existing geometry behind which it might be hidden. When using a z-buffer, a pixel can be culled (discarded) as soon as its depth is known, which makes...
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    Framebuffer (redirect from Frame buffer)
    end, the term off-screen buffer is also used. The information in the buffer typically consists of color values for every pixel to be shown on the display...
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    displaying. In general, this is a large pixel matrix or "frame buffer". There are three types of shaders in common use (pixel, vertex, and geometry shaders),...
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    the visible pixels in a final stage. The main advantage of scanline rendering over Z-buffering is that the number of times visible pixels are processed...
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  • Google Pixel is a brand of portable consumer electronic devices developed by Google that run the Pixel version of the Android operating system. The main...
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  • The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are a pair of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. They...
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    In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a "reader" will see a complete (though perhaps...
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  • pixel-by-pixel. Deferred shading is a per-pixel shading technique that has recently become feasible for games. With deferred shading, a "g-buffer" is...
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  • typically minimised by scene sorting. Stencil buffer A buffer storing an integer value for each according screen pixel, used e.g. to mask out specific operations...
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    The Pixel 9a is an Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as a mid-range variant...
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  • Carpenter's A-buffer algorithm addresses this problem by approximating Catmull's per-pixel object-precision area sampling with per-pixel image-precision...
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  • Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL are a group of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product...
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    The Pixel 7a is an Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as a smaller variant...
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    The Pixel Buds is a line of wireless earbuds developed and marketed by Google. The first-generation Pixel Buds were launched on October 4, 2017, at the...
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    the display of pixel buffers on the screen, and the server (compositor) is the service provider controlling the display of these buffers. The Wayland reference...
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    near-similar or identical values in the z-buffer, which keeps track of depth. This then means that when a specific pixel is being rendered, it is ambiguous which...
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  • The Pixel and Pixel XL are a pair of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google and the first smartphones to be part of the Google...
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    context of the graphics pipeline Shader storage buffer objects, allowing shaders to read and write buffer objects like image load/store from 4.2, but through...
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  • The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are a pair of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. They...
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    Pixel Camera is a camera phone application developed by Google for the Android operating system on Google Pixel devices. Development with zoom lenses...
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    generality the term pixel is used) is checked against an existing depth value. If the current pixel is behind the pixel in the Z-buffer, the pixel is rejected...
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    The Pixel 5 is an Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as the successor to...
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    The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is an Android-powered foldable smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It...
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    The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are a pair of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. They...
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    The Pixel 8a is an Android smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as a mid-range variant...
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  • The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are a pair of Android phablet smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product...
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    The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are a pair of Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. They...
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    the geometry buffer (G-buffer) using "render to texture". After this, a pixel shader computes the direct and indirect lighting at each pixel using the information...
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