Tiling
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Tiling may refer to:
People with the surname Tiling:
- The physical act of laying tileTileA tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...
s - The mathematics of tessellationTessellationA tessellation or tiling of the plane is a pattern of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art...
s - The compiler optimization of loop tilingLoop tilingLoop tiling, also known as loop blocking, or strip mine and interchange, is a loop optimization used by compilers to make the execution of certain types of loops more efficient.- Overview :...
- In computing, a tiling window managerTiling window managerIn computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.-Xerox PARC:Although the...
, where windows do not overlap - In computing, a tiled renderingTiled renderingTiled rendering is the process of subdividing a computer graphics image by a regular grid in image space to exploit local spatial coherence in the scene and/or to facilitate the use of limited hardware rendering resources later in the graphics pipeline...
, the process of subdividing an image by regular grid
People with the surname Tiling:
- Reinhold TilingReinhold TilingReinhold Tiling was a German engineer, pilot and a rocket pioneer.-Biography:Tiling was born in Absberg, Kingdom of Bavaria, as the son of a pastor. Shortly after he began the study of mechanical engineering and electro-technology he found himself in war service at the beginning of the First World...
, German rocket pioneer - Heinrich Sylvester Theodor TilingHeinrich Sylvester Theodor TilingHeinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling was a German–Russian physician and naturalist. During his later years he became an American citizen.- Early years :...
, Physician, botanist