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Also because the information is slightly more dense with a system based on triangles - 6 bits at a given vertex versus 4 bits.

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Quick take

A love triangle.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A love triangle.

noun

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

noun

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for triangles.

noun

A love triangle.

noun

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

noun

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

noun

The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.

Example sentences

Also because the information is slightly more dense with a system based on triangles - 6 bits at a given vertex versus 4 bits.

Hair rendering in RIS is only fast-ish because they tesselate to triangles (based on the shading rate), which means stupid memory usage.

Does it bother anyone else that the screenshot shows an hexagon that doesn't match the angle of the triangles?

While this may be true for high fidelity gaming, for moving some textured triangles around, mobile GPUs are fine.

The main idea is that you represent a 3D object using not triangles, but a function f(x,y,z) stored on the GPU.

Lines and triangles are both geometric figures, but that doesn't make them fundamentally the same.

For private labeling, though, I'd prefer something that just scans alphanumeric labels, and not some silly triangles.

I have no doubt that a bunch of people are going to get 4 inclined triangles and a screen.

If this is really only OpenGL, then a more apt title would be 'Go + gxui: Rendering triangles very fast on any platform?'.

Machines find reading QR codes and OP's triangles easier than reading letters.

Let's say you want to render a scene with tons of triangles and textures, you probably won't be able to do that in Cycles.

They don't use special tricks for quantizing those triangles in the memory.

Quote examples

In Plato's Meno dialog, Socrates teaches a kid the abstraction called "irrational numbers" by having the kid draw triangles on the sand and then try and find the square root of 2.

So given a triangular/square grid, the number of traceable segments is what matters (and that's where the ink goes too.) I agree that triangles look a lot better than squares (to the point that the "swastika effect" is indeed a problem, even though the drawings are generated by a human, and not randomly.) However, they are also very hard to draw properly.

Or, kinda-oppositely, instead of heading in the direction of increasing smoothness you might head in the direction of increasing discreteness: you might want a "triangulation" of the manifold, meaning that you can build it out of points (0-dimensional) and line segments (1-dimensional) and triangles (2-dimensional) and tetrahedra (3-dimensional), etc., etc., glued together in obvious ways along their faces.