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backface

noun

Etymology

From back + face.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. compounded as backface — “back + face”

Definitions

  1. The back side of a face of a mesh, which typically will never face the camera and can…

    The back side of a face of a mesh, which typically will never face the camera and can thus be culled (discarded) from the list of items to be rendered.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backface. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA