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Aliasing vs Mipmap - What's the difference?

aliasing | mipmap |

As nouns the difference between aliasing and mipmap

is that aliasing is distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as Moire effect or stair-stepped edges while mipmap is a precalculated, optimised collection of s accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.

As a verb aliasing

is present participle of lang=en.

aliasing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (signal processing, graphics, sound recording) Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, as Moire effect or stair-stepped edges.

    • Derived terms

    * anti-aliasing

    See also

    * ("aliasing" on Wikipedia)

    mipmap

    English

    (wikipedia mipmap)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer graphics) A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.