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Computer aided design software.

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hidden-line

Software; CAD

A display (and rendering) technique for displaying only those lines visible from the current perspective view.

1. In general, the arrangement of parent-child relationships for all connected nodes that make up an object (also known as object hierarchy) or a scene (also known as DAG or scene hierarchy). 2. In ...

highlight

Software; CAD

The color of a rendered surface where it directly reflects a light source.

high-quality interactive shading

Software; CAD

A high quality display of your work as you build, shade, texture, and light your scenes in the scene view. This type of interactive shading lets you see a very good representation of the look of the ...

joint

Software; CAD

In animation, a place where two or more bones are attached together. Joints are the building blocks of skeletons. The action of a bone attached to a joint is controlled by the joint’s rotation and ...

joint chain

Software; CAD

In animation, any group of joints and their bones connected in a series. The joints are connected linearly (that is, you could draw a line through a joint chain’s series of joints and their bones ...

joint chain plane

Software; CAD

In animation, a plane that would best contain all the joints in the joint chain, thereby controlling how the joint chain can twist. The joint chain plane can rotate about the handle vector, having ...