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by mapio 3308 days ago
Sounds interesting… can you provide any reference? A technical/scientific paper, a book, a Wikipedia entry… I was unable to Google it using both "Backward Drawing" and "Backward Mapping" as keywords.
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I learned "Forward Mapping" in a scientific paper when I was creating my own morphing and deformations algorithms, I don't remember which paper. (Some Googled links I just found : http://biomachina.org/courses/imageproc/051.pdf , https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci773s1c/lectures... )

The term is mainly used for image interpolation and GPU textures. I prefer to say "drawing" because the notion can be extended to anything you want to visualise.

On the internet you can find a lot of visualization by forward drawing on a canvas. But recently there's more and more backward drawing with GPU and shaders (goto https://www.shadertoy.com/ for a lot of examples)