checkerboard rendering

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checkerboard rendering (uncountable)

  1. (computer graphics) A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially and/or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.
    Synonym: checkerboarding
    • 2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491:
      Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.