environment mapping
List of: Glossary Items
Subjects: Environment Maps
Contents: Glossary

A rendering technique that creates an illusion of mirror-like reflections on the surface of objects. Environment mapping may simulate both the reflections of a surrounding environment lying at some remote distance from the objects being rendered and inter-object reflections. Environment mapping is also known as reflection mapping and is view-dependent.
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