Definitions for "Stipple"
To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.
A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
closely spaced, random quilt stitches used to create textured background areas of quilting - popular in the nineteenth century
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A technique used in both hand and machine quilting, though found more commonly in machine quilting. Stippling is a continuous, closely placed non straight line used to fill in an area of a quilt. The stippled line never makes a sharp turn and never crosses itself. Stippling is used to flatten an area of a quilt and to create texture. When stippling while hand quilting, the stitches made should align. Please see http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/tvt035.asp for an example of machine stippling.
A ``stipple pattern'' is a bitmap that is used to tile a region to serve as an additional clip mask for a fill operation with the foreground color.
A one- or two-dimensional binary pattern that defeats the generation of fragments where its value is zero. Line stipples are one-dimensional and are applied relative to the start of a line. Polygon stipples are two-dimensional and are applied with a fixed orientation to the window.
The large group of patterns cut with finely notched, often multiple pattern bars, including foxhead, fleur de lys (daisy), chequerboard, and innumerable others.
produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees"