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🏦 To take too much 🖥️ Wasted drawing work 📢 To exaggerate
overdraw

overdraw

1 8.4
Wasted drawing work when parts of the screen are drawn but later hidden
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : sobregiro

Examples

  • But that's generally the type of failure you see is is overdraw or power component failures.

  • Those were overdraws, overdraws and they were sagging and long, but in in every corner.

  • The game performance suffered due to an excessive overdraw that wasted resources by rendering pixels that were not visible.

  • In graphics optimization, reducing overdraw can significantly improve frame rates and overall rendering efficiency.

  • The developers discovered that the overdraw in the application's UI was causing lag during high-demand moments.

Surface Forms

overdraw singular
overdraws plural

Morphology

overdraw = overdraw (semi-transparent) = over + draw

As a noun, this is a straightforward conversion from the verb 'overdraw' meaning the process or amount of overdraw.

Etymology

Overdraw in computing uses over- 'too much' and draw 'to draw or paint on the screen'. So overdraw is when a program draws more parts of the screen than are needed (they are later hidden), which wastes work and slows things down.