Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of splat.
  • noun computer graphics A method for combining different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.

Etymologies

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The computing term was coined by Charles Bloom.

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Examples

  • Dutch farmer Jan Willem Horstmann, preparing to slaughter the entire line of sheep that he took so many years to breed, as foot-and-mouth disease continued to plague continental Europe "The ethics and legal implications of 'splatting' and 'sloshing' are expected to be hotly debated under the big top."

    Perspectives 2007

  • And then all the food caught up and came splatting right on me.

    The Boy in the Sandwich Vincent Eaton 2012

  • Think about like this: if you fed 200 dairy cows ex-lax while they were in their stalls in a barn, the sound of cowshit splatting on the floor would be deafening and continuous.

    Think Progress » After Sending His Producer To Stalk And Ambush Me, O’Reilly To Again Speak At Rape Survivors’ Benefit 2010

  • But given the two frontrunnners have spent more than $20m on splatting each other with attack ads in Florida alone, you can see the size of the mountain Santorum has to climb.12.57pm: Why did Mitt Romeny choose The Villages, a sprawling luxury retirement village north of Tampa for his eve-of-poll rally last night?

    Florida primary - voting day as it happened 2012

  • It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.

    The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010

  • It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.

    The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010

  • A decision involving the real death of a real creature, not the press-button splatting of some alien or "terrorist" on a computer screen.

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.

    The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010

  • It keeps thumping against the turf and splatting against the backstop.

    Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010

  • It's here again too, sounding like dough splatting on a countertop.

    The Sound of Broken Bells Jim Fusilli 2010

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