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• 3
  • 3Dfx

• A
  • Affine transformation
  • Algorithm
  • Alpha blending
  • Alpha channel
  • Ambient lighting
  • Ambient occlusion
  • AMD
  • Animation
  • Anistropic filtering
  • Anti-aliasing
  • ATI

• B
  • Back-face culling
  • Basis vector
  • Bezier
  • Bilinear filtering
  • Binary Space Partition
  • Binormal
  • Blitting
  • Bloom
  • Bottleneck
  • Bounding box
  • Bresenham lines
  • Bump mapping

• C
  • Camera
  • Carmack, John
  • Cascaded Shadow maps
  • Cathode ray tube (CRT)
  • Clamped texture addressing
  • Clip plane
  • Clipping
  • Cloth
  • Compressed texture
  • CSG (Constructive solid geometry)
  • COLLADA
  • Color Keying
  • Control points
  • Convex hull
  • Coordinate system
  • Cross product
  • Cube map

• D
  • Deferred shading
  • Deformation
  • Depth buffer
  • Depth of field
  • Diffuse illumination
  • DirectX
  • Displacement mapping
  • Dithering
  • Dot Product
  • Double buffering

• E
  • Edge detection
  • Environment mapping
  • Entity - An instance of an object in the world
  • Euler angles

• F
  • FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)
  • Fill rate
  • Fog
  • Fonts
  • Fractal
  • Frame buffer
  • Fresnel term
  • Frustum

• G
  • Gamma correction
  • Gaussian blur
  • Geometry shader
  • Global illumination
  • Gouraud Shading
  • GPU (graphics processing unit)
  • GPGPU

• H
  • HDR (High dynamic range)
  • Height field
  • Hierarchy
  • HLSL (High level shader language)
  • Homogenous coordinates

• I
  • Identity Matrix
  • ILM (Industrial Light and Magic)
  • Imposters
  • Instancing
  • Intel
  • Interpolation
  • Inverse kinematics
  • Inverse Matrix
  • Isosurface

• J
  • Joint constraints

• K
  • Keyframes

• L
  • Latency
  • Lerp (Linear interpolation)
  • Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
  • LOD (Level of detail)
  • Lighting

• M
  • Mach bands
  • Marching cubes
  • Matrix
  • Matrix palette skinning
  • Mipmapping
  • Modeling
  • Multiprocessing

• N
  • Newton Physics engine
  • Normal
  • Normal mapping
  • NVidia

• O
  • Object - A mesh in Power Render
  • Octree
  • OpenEXR
  • Orthogonal
  • Orthonormal basis

• P
  • Painter's Algorithm
  • Palette
  • Parallax mapping
  • Particle systems
  • Perlin noise
  • PPU (Physics processing unit)
  • Pipeline
  • Pixar
  • Pixel shader
  • Polygon
  • Post processing effects
  • Primitives
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• Q
  • Quadtree

• R
  • Radiosity
  • Ragdoll physics
  • Rasterization
  • Raycasting
  • Raytracing
  • Reflection
  • Refraction
  • Refresh rate
  • Rendering
  • Resolution
  • RGB color model
  • Rotation
  • Run length encoding

• S
  • S3
  • Scene graph
  • Segment - A mesh that is part of a hierarchy
  • Shaders
  • Shadow maps
  • Skeletal animation
  • Slerp (Spherical Linear Interplation)
  • Specular reflection
  • Spherical harmonic lighting
  • Splatting
  • Spotlight
  • Stencil buffer
  • Stencil shadows

• T
  • Tangent
  • Tangent space
  • Tesselation
  • Texture
  • Texture Filtering
  • Tiled texture addressing
  • Triple buffering

• U
  • UV coordinates

• V
  • Vertex
  • Vertex shader

• W

• X

• Y

• Z
  • Z Buffer