The detail and clarity of any image, including game graphics, depend on the number of pixels, commonly referred to as resolution. ... they also demand more from the computer’s GPU.

In computer graphics, the combining of the alpha channel with other layers in an image in order to show translucency. The alpha channel is an additional eight bits used with each pixel in a 32-bit ...

Display list - A list of vectors, curves, pixel states, and text that defines the graphics data to be displayed. Moving this information to the terminal speeds response time.