Compositor

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Compositor may refer to:

  • Compositor (typesetting)
    , a person or machine which arranged movable type for printing
    • Paige Compositor, a device developed to replace manual compositors, which was a commercial failure
  • Compositing software
    , used in film post-production for compositing, special effects, and color correction
  • Compositing window manager, a software process which composites off-screen buffers for each open window to create a screen image
    • Quartz Compositor, the display server and window manager in macOS
    • Wayland compositor
      , any computer display server compatible with the Wayland protocol

See also

  • Compositing, combining visual elements from separate sources into a single result. Originally used for a tradesman in the printing industry a compositor, who assembled movable type and blocks to form a page for printing.

Subsequently used in the film industry.