alt Hacker NewsA graphical object composited just in time in display scanning process.
(Or in other words, a graphical object on screen that is not present in a framebuffer of any kind.)
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pugworthy • yesterday at 6:51 PM
This is immediately what popped into my head, and I clicked the link thinking it was going to be some old-school game dev content.
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There was a time before 8bit video games.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sprite
I personally associate the term Shakespeare's The Tempest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(The_Tempest)