shadow volume

English

Noun

shadow volume (countable and uncountable, plural shadow volumes)

  1. (computer graphics) The spatial volume resulting from the projection of a ray from a light source through each vertex of a shadow-casting object to some point (generally at infinity); used in adding accurate shadows to a rendered scene.
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