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shading

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shading
See Phong shading, Gouraud shading, flat shading and programmable shading.
shading
the graded areas of tone, lines, dots, etc., indicating light and dark in a painting or drawing
shading [′shād·iŋ]
(electronics)
Television process of compensating for the spurious signal generated in a camera tube during trace intervals.
(mapping)
hill shading


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I gather the larkspur Over the hillside, Blown mid the chaos Of boulder and bellbine; Hating the tyrant Who made me an outcast, Who of his leisure Now spares me no moment: Drinking the mountain spring, Shading at noon-day Under the cypress My limbs from the sun glare.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
Ashmore looked upward, shading his eyes with his hat held between them and the lantern.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
And as she blows, and shading it with her lean hand, concentrates its red spark of light, it serves in the dim morning as a lamp to show him what he sees of her.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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