shadow volume (English, noun)
expansion: shadow volume (countable and uncountable, plural shadow volumes)
Senses:
topics: computer-graphics
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glosses: The spatial volume resulting from the projection of a ray from a light source through each vertex of a shadow-casting object to some point (generally at infinity); used in adding accurate shadows to a rendered scene.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: shadow volumes
tags: plural