Varying vs Variance - What's the difference?
varying | variance |
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
The act of varying or the state of being variable
A difference between what is expected and what happens
The state of differing or being in conflict
A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
(senseid)(statistics) The second central moment in probability
(computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally
As nouns the difference between varying and variance
is that varying is a kind of variable, used by a fragment shader, that interpolates values across a primitive, so as to produce gradient effects etc while variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable.As a verb varying
is .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
