Texture

Definitions

1. A bitmap image mapped onto the surface of a 3D model or 2D sprite to give it visual detail — stored in GPU memory and sampled by shaders during rendering using UV coordinates.

   In plain English: An image that gets wrapped around a 3D object to give it a realistic surface appearance, like wallpaper on a shape.

   Example: "The 4K texture atlas for the terrain alone is 200 MB — we need to stream mipmaps or mobile GPUs will choke."

Related Terms

• Data Parallelism
• Shader
• WebGPU
• Compute Shader
• Fragment Shader
• Pixel Buffer
• Rasterization
• Render Loop
• Render Pipeline
• Vertex Shader
• VR Development