bump mapping (English, noun)
expansion: bump mapping (uncountable)
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topics: computer-graphics
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glosses: A technique where a perturbation to the surface normal of the object being rendered is applied to each pixel, based on a texture map, prior to calculating the illumination, so as to produce a richer, more detailed surface representation.
tags: uncountable
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