mipmap

English

Etymology

Initialism of Latin multum in parvo (much in a small space), and map, modelled on bitmap.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

mipmap (plural mipmaps)

1. (computer graphics) A precalculated, optimised collection of images accompanying a main texture, used to increase rendering speed and reduce aliasing artifacts.

Verb

mipmap (third-person singular simple present mipmaps, present participle mipmapping, simple past and past participle mipmapped)

1. (computer graphics, transitive) To precalculate images for a texture in this manner.
   • 2004, Wolfgang Heidrich, Ravin Balakrishnan, Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, Graphics Interface 2004: proceedings, page 167:

     The ability to mipmap floating-point textures would help with the computation of the maximum energy to find the next shooter.