occlusion

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The problem with the occlusion culling is not about knowing what parts are static, but rather figuring out what occluders there are.

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Quick take

closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of occlusion gathered in one view.

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closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

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(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

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(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for occlusion.

noun

closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)

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(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

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(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

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an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"

See also: blockage, block, closure, stop, stoppage

noun

the act of blocking

Example sentences

The problem with the occlusion culling is not about knowing what parts are static, but rather figuring out what occluders there are.

It's the only comment in this thread mentioning image occlusion, a hugely powerful anki technique.

Then use the image occlusion editor to hide labels on the slide, and then I use the editor to highlight a certain area on the slide and ask "what is this muscle?

I went to a supercomputing demo of a 3d visualisation company that used occlusion like Rift apparently does, and it worked!

I remember that the OpenGL occlusion query code was especially glitchy-- it had a bad tendency to make things become invisible for no apparent reason!

Because stereoscopic vision accounts for only about 30% of our ability to judge distance, behind occlusion and motion parallax, it was amusing but not life changing.

Also, would it be possible to speed up rendering by identifying occlusion from the viewpoint and not rendering those voxels as opposed to the "building up" demoed in the video?Really great stuff!

The worst possible issue is a GPS failure or occlusion: if the system loses GPS during autonomous flight, it has about 10 seconds of guessing its velocity based on other sensors before it becomes completely out of control.

However, there are many difficulties in visually encoding information with the third spatial dimension, depth, which has important differences from the two planar dimensions.> The cues that convey depth information to our visual system include occlusion, perspective distortion, shadows and lighting, familiar size, stereoscopic disparity, and others.