viewport
See also: Viewport
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvjuːpɔː(ɹ)t/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uːpɔː(ɹ)t
- Hyphenation: view‧port
Noun
viewport (plural viewports)
- A viewing window.
- acrylic plastic viewports in pressure vessels for human occupancy
- (computer graphics) A typically rectangular region representing the range or area currently visible (within a window, screen, etc.).
- Dragging the scroll-bar changes which part of the picture is visible within the viewport.
Translations
rectangular region in computer graphics
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Verb
viewport (third-person singular simple present viewports, present participle viewporting, simple past and past participle viewported)
- (transitive, computer graphics) To clip (an image or region) so that it fits in a viewport.
- 1979, Tutorial: Computer Graphics, page 80:
- Some general ideas on clipping, viewporting, and windowing can be found in Rogers and Adams.
- 1980, MTS, the Michigan Terminal System, volume 17, page 42:
- Viewporting is an operation that takes the portion of the picture that has been mapped into the square region delimited by -1,+1,-1,+1 and further maps it into a rectangular subregion of the screen (a viewport).
- 2012, Scott Preston, Learn HTML5 and JavaScript for iOS:
- The main thing I want you to take away from this chapter is knowing where to start and creating a very simple viewported web site using nothing more than an extra <meta> tag and simple HTML.
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