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Computer aided design software.

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backface culling (backculling)

Software; CAD

A method of selecting and drawing only those surfaces that face into the surface normal. One-sided polygons facing away from the surface normal are not shown.Backface culling helps speed up the ...

batch bake

Software; CAD

In mental ray rendering, a method of baking selected objects with their respective bake-set settings.

batch render

Software; CAD

scene file. Batch renders allow you to continue working on a scene while it is being rendered, launch renders remotely, and render scenes faster than from within the Maya user interface.

bend deformer

Software; CAD

In animation, a method used to bend an object along an arc.

beveling

Software; CAD

In polygonal modeling, the expansion of vertices and edges into a new face. You can use options to position these faces at an offset, or scale them towards the original face center. For the text ...

In compositing, the process of defining a selected color or range of colors to be transparent. Usually chroma keying is done in blue (blue screening) or green (green screening). By making a blue or ...

clipping plane

Software; CAD

An imaginary plane located at a specific point along a camera’s sight line. A camera has two clipping planes: near and far. Only those objects between these two clipping planes are visible in a ...