checkerboard rendering

English

Noun

checkerboard rendering (uncountable)

1. (computer graphics) A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard pattern) to then be interpolated (spatially and/or temporally), usually in order to increase performance.

   Synonym: checkerboarding

   • 2003, Thomas Ertl, Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2003: Proceedings, page 491:

     Figure 6: Checkerboard rendering using two different screen space surface splatting algorithms.