"distance fog" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. (computer graphics) A gradient that progressively obscures objects as they get further from the camera, typically used to avoid the processing overhead of rendering distant objects. Wikipedia link: distance fog Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computer graphics

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