From BlenderWiki
Glossary of acronyms and other strange terminology
- AHOY = ?
- BAT = Blender Asset Tracker
- bb BLI_assert(ELEM(tmp.bb, NULL, me->bb)); = bounding box ?
- bdsm = Blender Data Storage Manager (EditDerivedBMesh ?)
- BEER = Blender Extended Expressive Rendering
- BLAM = camera and video projector calibration toolkit
- BLI (#include "BLI_utildefines.h") = Blender Internal ?
- BLO = Blender Outliner?
- bmesh = Blender Mesh
- bpy = Blender Python (Module ?)
- BSDF = Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function
- BVH = Bounding Volume Hierarchy
- CD = CustomData
- CDDerivedMesh == CDDM
- ceres = ceres solver
- CLG = C Logging Library
- clog = C Logging Library
- COW = Copy On Write
- DAG = Directed Acyclic Graph
- depsgraph = Dependency Graph
- DM = Derived Mesh
- DNA = ?
- EEVEE = Extra Easy Virtual Environment Engine ?
- ghost = Generic Handy Operating System Toolkit
- GLSL = openGL Shading Language
- i18n = internationalization ?
- ik = Inverse Kinematics
- IES = Illuminating Engineering Society
- imbuf = Image Buffer ?
- itasc = instantaneous Task Specification using Constraints
- KDL = Kernal Data Layer ?
- KX = Ketsji (Blender game engine)
- LGTM = Looks Good To Me
- NLA = Non Linear Animation ?
- NPR = Non Photorealistic Rendering
- NUQ = Non Urgent Question
- OCIO = OpenColorIO
- OIIO = OpenImageIO
- orco = ORthographically projected onto bbox COordinates ?
- OSD = OpenSubDiv
- OSL = Open Shading Language
- par = parameter ?
- PBR = Physically Based Rendering
- RNA = ?
- rtl = Real Time Library ?
- SDNA = Struct DNA
- SSS = Sub Surface Scattering
- UQ = Urgent Question
- VDB = Volumetric Database ?
- VSE = Video Sequence Editor
