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buttery smooth

adj

Definitions

  1. Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or…

    Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or pauses as the video changes frames.

    • Today I hear gamers using the words “buttery smooth” to describe the effect of high refresh rates.
    • In today's parlance, Rosenthal's Space Wars was “buttery smooth” full frames presented at 30 frames a second, full frames containing glowing sticks of light that you felt you could touch.
    • One technique for buttery smooth footage is to edit high frame rate (60 or 120 frames per second) footage to play back in slow motion by changing the frame rate to 24 or 30 frames per second.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for buttery smooth. 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