🍞 Cooking in oven 💻 Precomputing graphics 🌞 Very hot

baking

12 6.4

Saving light and shadow in image files so a computer shows scenes faster

noun
/ˈbeɪkɪŋ/

Specialized

: precomputación de iluminación

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baking process

Hundreds of hours went into baking all of these.

Examples

The lighting effects in the game were improved by baking the textures beforehand.
Stir a few drops into a cup of baking soda to make a scented scrubbing powder.

Blog text (10)
Those can actually be be lost through the baking process.
This is a simulation of a baking process.
" But it can also be used within the baking process itself and for packaging.

Academic text (2009)
Cognex routinely provides vision systems for a variety of baking applications.

Academic text (2009)
And they've put their friends with no experience in the baking industry in high-level management positions.

Blog text (1)
The detailed model of the steel manufacturing process comprises four major parts: Baking, Blasting, Heating, and Rolling, shown in figures 6-9.

Academic text (1994)
They used baking techniques to create realistic shadows in the animation.
Efficient baking of lighting data allows for smoother gameplay in 3D environments.

Compounds

baking soda

29 1.2

A white powder used in baking, cleaning, and to ease heartburn

baking powder

15 1.0

A white powder used in cooking to make dough or batter rise

baking tray

1 2.3

A flat metal pan used in an oven to bake food like cookies

baking chocolate

1 1.8

Chocolate with no sugar used to make cakes, icings, and candies

baking hot

1 3.4

Feels very hot, like you are inside an oven

electric baking pan

4.1

A pan that plugs in and cooks food by baking or grilling

baking form

2.6

A pan that holds batter or dough while it bakes

baking mold

2.5

A container like a pan that shapes and holds dough or batter while it bakes

baking-powder biscuit

2.6

A small fluffy bread that uses baking powder and people often eat for breakfast or as a side

Surface Forms

baking singular

bakings plural

Morphology

baking = bake (opaque) = bake + ing

Although morphologically 'bake' + '-ing', the technical meaning (precomputing lighting into textures) is a specialized metaphor not deducible by an average learner from the culinary sense.

Etymology

Baking in computer graphics borrows the cooking idea from bake, which means 'to cook', and here it means 'to fix' lighting and shadow into image files ahead of time. So in games and 3D work, baking makes the lighting ready and faster to show during play.