# splatting

Pronunciation: say "SPLAT-ing" /ˈsplætɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of splat. — present participle and gerund of splat
   - Simple: Present participle of splat. Use it for something hitting a surface and spreading right now.
   - _Paint was splatting across the canvas as she flung the loaded brush._
   - _We could hear the eggs splatting on the sidewalk below._

## Noun

2. The sound or motion produced when something soft or wet strikes a surface and spreads on impact.
   - Simple: The wet, smacking sound or movement made when something soft hits a surface.
   - _The splatting of mud against the windshield grew louder as the truck sped up._
   - _Every footstep set off splatting in the flooded basement._
3. A method for combining different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, so the layers underneath show through where the map is partly or fully transparent.
   - Simple: A way to blend surface textures by using a map that lets lower layers show through where it is see-through.
   - _The terrain engine relies on splatting to transition between sand, grass, and stone._
   - _By adjusting the alpha map, the developer controlled how the splatting revealed the rock beneath._

## Origin

The computing term was coined by Charles Bloom.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/splatting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).