Home 3D CG Glossary Bump Mapping Contact Services   Random Image click for full size Main Menu Home Services Gallery Demo Video 3D CG Glossary The Laboratory Downloads Copyright Contact Glossary Terms 3D Modeling 3D Rendering Anti-Aliasing Bit Depth Blurry Reflections / Refractions Bump Mapping Caustics CG / CGI Color Bleeding Compositing Depth of Fields Direct Light Displacement Mapping Flythrough Frame Fresnel Effect Global Illumination High Dynamic Range Images Indirect Light Keyframe Light Emitters Low-Poly Modelling Motion Blur Motion Capture NURBS Particle Systems Polygon Procedural Texture Raytracing Realtime 3D Rigging Shading Sub-Surface Scattering Texture Mapping Toon Shading Volumetric effects Wireframe select a term from the list on the left to see the description.   feel free to contact MadTom Productions about: the suggestion of another term the correction of a wrong or missleading statement (i hope there are none) any 3D CG related topic Bump Mapping A Bump Map is used like a Texture Map, however it doesn't contain a color value for each pixel, but a hight value. Usually it's a greyscale picture, where black is lowest and white is highest. Like that the artist can create 3-dimensional looking details on an object without actually changing the objects geometry, the Renderer generates the details  by shading only. This however limits the amount of details able to be created by bumpmaping since the objects outlines doesn't change, displacement mapping overcomes this limitation.   < Prev   Next >

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