In DXT2, the color data is interpreted as being premultiplied by alpha, in DXT3 it is interpreted as not having been premultiplied by alpha.

Typically DXT2 / 3 are well suited to images with sharp alpha transitions, between translucent and opaque areas.

Because DXT4 / 5 use an interpolated alpha scheme, they generally produce superior results for alpha ( transparency ) gradients than DXT2 / 3.

** DDS ( DXT1, DXT3, DXT5 )

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

The Christian world is also known collectively as the Corpus Christianum.

Sometimes also collectively called the chase ring.

Dianetics is also practiced by independent groups, collectively called the Free Zone.

Dalhousie also houses a number of marine research pools, a wet laboratory and a benthic flume, which are collectively known as the Aquatron laboratory.

The Ediacara biota ( also called Vendian biota ) dating from 575 million years ago collectively constitutes a richly diverse assembly of early multicellular eukaryotes.

The country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Most of the group's members also had professional ambitions within science fiction and related fields, and collectively were very effective at achieving this goal, as the roster of members below suggests.

Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".

The Second Barbary War ( 1815, also known as the Algerine or Algerian War ) was the second of two wars fought between the United States of America, England, and The Netherlands loosely allied against the Ottoman Empire's North African regencies of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, known collectively as the Barbary States.

The term may also refer to all such intensions collectively, although the term comprehension is technically more correct for this.

' Balance of trade ' refers to the trade of both tangible ( physical ) objects as well as the trade in services – collectively known as exports and imports ( in other words, ' visibles plus services ') – while the ' balance of payments ' also includes transfers of Capital in the form of loans, investments in shares or direct investment in projects.

This is because submission to the authority of the general will of the people as a whole guarantees individuals against being subordinated to the wills of others and also ensures that they obey themselves because they are, collectively, the authors of the law.

Soybeans may also be one of the beans in kongbap, which boil together with several types of beans and other grains, and they are also the primary ingredient in the production of fermented condiments collectively referred to as jang, such as soybean pastes, doenjang and cheonggukjang, a soy sauce called ganjang, chili pepper paste or gochujang and others.

Several types of wild greens, known collectively as chwinamul ( such as Aster scaber ), are a popular dish, and other wild vegetables such as bracken fern shoots ( gosari ) or Korean bellflower root ( doraji ) are also harvested and eaten in season.

The model followed by the corporation WL Gore and Associates, inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics, is also similar to mutualism as there is no chain of command and salaries are determined collectively by the workers.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

Neural networks are also similar to biological neural networks that functions are performed collectively and in parallel by the units, rather than there being a clear delineation of subtasks to which various units are assigned.

Pumping stations should also be tested collectively, because where pumps can run in combination to meet a given demand, it is often possible for very inefficient combination of pumps to occur.

Their office or position is the priesthood, a term which also may apply to such persons collectively.

* Palestinian territories, also known as " Occupied Palestinian Territory ", terms applied to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip collectively, today referring to the Palestinian Authority areas and the Hamas governed Gaza Strip

* Switzerland, where the headship of state is collectively vested in the seven-member Swiss Federal Council, although there is also a President of the Confederation, who is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Federal Assembly ( the Swiss Parliament ) for a year ( constitutional convention mandates that the post rotates every New Year's Day ).

Many of these prophets are also found in the texts of Judaism ( The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings ; collectively known as the Old Testament to Christians ) and Christianity.

Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called " The Adobe Photoshop Family ".

Those writers known collectively as the `` Southern school '' have received accolades from even those critics least prone to eulogize ; ;

In the preamble to the open-meeting statutes, collectively known as the Brown Act, the Legislature declares that `` the public commissions, boards and councils and other public agencies in this state exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.

Max Gluckman, together with many of his colleagues at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and students at Manchester University, collectively known as the Manchester School, took BSA in new directions through their introduction of explicitly Marxist-informed theory, their emphasis on conflicts and conflict resolution, and their attention to the ways in which individuals negotiate and make use of the social structural possibilities.

Elder Futhark gave rise to a variety of alphabets known collectively as the Runic alphabets.

These holes collectively make up what is known as the selenizone which form as the shell grows.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants.

The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as " the Trilogy "– Sybil, Coningsby, and Tancred.

Relaxase may work alone or in a complex of over a dozen proteins known collectively as a relaxosome.

BJU's athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Christian College Athletic Association ( NCCAA ) and are collectively known as the Bruins.

Boroughs and cities were collectively known as municipalities, and were enclaves separate from their surrounding counties.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

Higher brain areas are seen as more promising, especially the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in a range of higher cognitive functions collectively known as executive functions.

Cardinals are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope.

The biochemical reactions that occur in living organisms are collectively known as metabolism.

Chinese jellies are known collectively in the language as ices.

These units, along with others ( both cavalry and infantry ), collectively became known as the Buffalo Soldiers.

On April 12, Chiang carried out a purge of thousands of suspected Communists and dissidents in Shanghai, and began large-scale massacres across the country collectively known as the " White Terror ".

These layers of fixed positive and negative charges, collectively known as the depletion layer because they are depleted of free electrons and holes.

The cell cycle consists of four distinct phases: G < sub > 1 </ sub > phase, S phase ( synthesis ), G < sub > 2 </ sub > phase ( collectively known as interphase ) and M phase ( mitosis ).

Austrian Red Cross reports that they, along with Tumal and Yibir people are locally known collectively as sab, meaning low caste people.

The other diseases are now known collectively as gastroenteritis.