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glitz (glĭts)  Informal. |
[Back-formation from glitzy, flashy, showy, probably from German glitzern, to glitter, from Middle High German glitzen, to shine, from Old High German glīzan.]
glitziness glitz'i·ness n.| Thesaurus: glitz |
noun
| WordNet: glitz |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
tasteless showiness
Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness
| Wikipedia: Glitz (software) |
Glitz is a software library for 2D graphics which provides hardware acceleration using OpenGL, an API for 3D graphics[1]. Glitz is open-source software, licensed under (an old variant of) the MIT License. Development is hosted at freedesktop.org.
Glitz was designed to provide the same facilities as XRender:
As with XRender, the key operation that Glitz provides is Porter-Duff composition.
Glitz also provides some facilities that XRender does not:
All of this is implemented using OpenGL features such as multitexturing, shaders, vertex buffers, frame buffer objects. In fact, a substantial part of Glitz is a wrapper around OpenGL that allows the programmer to think in terms of "drawable surfaces" rather than windows, pbuffers or frame buffer objects.
Glitz is the key component of the Xgl X server, which used to be shipped with most Linux distributions.[2]
The increasingly popular cairo graphics library supports Glitz as a backend, meaning that a few lines of code will enable any of the applications and toolkits which use cairo to take advantage of graphics hardware. However, glitz support in cairo has bitrotted and does not work for the 1.8.x versions of cairo.[3]
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| Translations: Glitz |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - glamour, pragt
v. tr. - besnære
Nederlands (Dutch)
opzichtigheid, glitter, glamour
Français (French)
n. - clinquant
v. tr. - clinquer
Deutsch (German)
n. - (oberflächlicher) Glanz
v. - etw. glanzvoll und reizend machen
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) κακόγουστη ή κραυγαλέα επιδεικτικότητα
v. - κάνω θεαματικότερο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pompa (f) excessiva, espalhafato (m), falso brilho (m)
Русский (Russian)
фальшивый блеск
Español (Spanish)
n. - extravagancia del mundo del espectáculo, brillo ostentoso o sofisticado
v. tr. - dar un brillo ostentoso a
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - prål
v. - pråla, glittra
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
浮华, 耀眼, 炫目, 使浮华, 使耀眼, 使炫目
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 浮華, 耀眼, 炫目
v. tr. - 使浮華, 使耀眼, 使炫目
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 화려한 장식
v. tr. - 화려하게 장식하다
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) بهجه, فرح
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - זוהר שטחי, ראוותנות
v. tr. - הוסיף קישוטי ראווה
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