Glossary of Terms

There are many definitions for technical artist-related terms available at the VES Glossary. If you can't find the term you are looking for there, check our pages below.

List of Technical Art Terms

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A

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B

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Barycentric Coordinates

C

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Cascade Pose Regression

Compute Shaders

Convolve

D

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Distance Field

E

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Event Listener

F

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G

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Geometry Shaders

H

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I

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J

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K

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L

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Laplace Operator

M

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Material X

Microservice

N

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O

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Optical Flow

P

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Paired Blend Node

Parse

Plates (Facial Capture Animation)

Q

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Quantized Mesh

Quantized Quaternion

R

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Radial Sorting

Raymarching

Relaxed Cone Mapping

ROMs (Range of Motion)

S

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Shadow Cache

Smoke Testing

Spatializing

Spherical Harmonics

Surface Shader

T

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U

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Unit Testing

V

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VATs (Vertex Animation Textures)

Vertex Stream

Virtual Textures

W

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X

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Y

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Z

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