Varying vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
varying | uncertain | Related terms |
A kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc.
* 2012 , Patrick Cozzi, Christophe Riccio, OpenGL Insights
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
Varying is a related term of uncertain.
As a verb varying
is .As a noun varying
is a kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc.As an adjective uncertain is
not certain; unsure.varying
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(en noun)- Another consideration to the relationship between vertex and fragment shaders is that adding too many additional varyings can be a drag on performance since they must all be interpolated