Multi-Sampled Anti-Aliasing. A basic anti-aliasing technique that takes
multiple samples of the depth buffer, and uses this information to
smooth the edges of polygons.
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+ TCL
+ Transform, Clipping, & Lighting. The three stages of preparation in a
+ rasterizing pipeline prior to the actual rasterization of vertices into
+ fragments.
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+ NPOT
+ Non-power-of-two. Usually applied to textures which have at least one
+ dimension which is not a power of two.
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+ LOD
+ Level of Detail. Also spelled "LoD." The value that determines when the
+ switches between mipmaps occur during texture sampling.