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post-processing

Visual effects applied to the whole finished image after the 3D scene has already been drawn.

Post-processing works in screen space, treating the rendered frame as a flat picture and transforming it: bloom, blur, color grading, anti-aliasing, and similar effects. Because it runs after the main rendering, it operates on final pixels rather than 3D geometry. It's a cheap, flexible way to add polish to a scene.

See also

  • render targetThe image a GPU draws its output into — which need not be the screen itself.
  • resolveCollapsing a multi-sample (anti-aliased) image down to one clean sample per pixel.
  • PPMA dead-simple uncompressed image file format that stores raw pixel color values in plain form.

Referenced by

PPM · render target · resolve