Definición de «frustum» en inglés

noun

1. A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.

   • 2006, Pawan Harish Nirnimesh, P. J. Narayanan, Culling an Object Hierarchy to a Frustum Hierarchy, Prem Kalra, Shmuel Peleg (editors), Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: 5th Indian Conference, ICVGIP 2006, Springer, LNCS4338, page 252, However, when there are multiple view frustums (as in a tiled display wall), visibility culling time becomes substantial and cannot be hidden by pipelining it with other stages of rendering.

2. A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes.