Concepts

This page is compact list of concepts and glossary used in FAST.

• Process object - A pipeline object (PO) which performs processing on zero or more input data and generates zero or more output data.
• Pipeline - A set of process objects connected together to form an execution graph.
• Renderer - A process object which draws the input data on screen using OpenGL shaders
• View - An object that represents a scene/viewport. It has a list of renderers, which it calls upon to draw its scene sequentially in order.
• Text pipeline - A pipeline defined in a text file, uses the extension .fpl (fast pipeline). It can be executed with the runPipeline executable.