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  2. Clipping (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    A creative application programmer can use this method to render visualizations of the interior of a 3D object in the scene. For example, a medical imaging application could use this technique to render the organs inside a human body. A video game programmer can use clipping information to accelerate game logic. [3]

  3. Clipping - Wikipedia

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    Clipping (computer graphics), only drawing things that will be visible to the viewer; Noclip mode, or "Noclipping", when the player or another object in a video game unrealistically passes through another object; Clipping (gardening), pruning, removing unwanted portions from a plant Clippings, the portions that are removed in this process

  4. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a diminutive word or a clipped compound. Clipping differs from abbreviation , which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

  5. Gamer psychology expert shows where Facebook games win and fail

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    More than two hundred million players check in every month to play Zynga games, and yet, those and other Facebook games are often derided as exploitative "Skinner boxes", their appeal reduced to ...

  6. Transform, clipping, and lighting - Wikipedia

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    Hardware T&L had been used by arcade game system boards since 1993, [1] and by home video game consoles since the Sega Genesis's Virtua Processor (SVP), Sega Saturn's SCU-DSP and Sony PlayStation's GTE in 1994 and the Nintendo 64's RSP in 1996, though it wasn't traditional hardware T&L, but still software T&L running on a coprocessor instead of the main CPU, and could be used for rudimentary ...

  7. Clipping (signal processing) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping can be detected by viewing the signal (on an oscilloscope, for example), and observing that the tops and bottoms of waves aren't smooth anymore. When working with images, some tools can highlight all pixels that are pure white, allowing the user to identify larger groups of white pixels and decide if too much clipping has occurred.

  8. Compulsion loop - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Cult of the Lamb, one half of the game is a roguelike hack-n-slash system which the player can use to gather resources, which are then used in the game's other half, a settlement management simulation. By advancing the settlement, the player can unlock more powerful weapons and abilities in the hack-and-slash and reach more ...

  9. Clamp (function) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, clamping, or clipping is the process of limiting a value to a range between a minimum and a maximum value. Unlike wrapping , clamping merely moves the point to the nearest available value.