: Re: How do you introduce terms? There's a few different styles for technical (academic) papers. Which is the preferred style to introducing new technical terms? For example, here is a paragraph

You are trying to get the sentence to do two things. You might want to omit the terms in brackets until you have a chance to explain them. Trying to cram too much into one sentence makes it unwieldy.

But because local lighting models do not consider other scene
geometry, its not possible to directly model the effect of light
bouncing from one piece of geometry to the next, or
geometry that blocks light from reaching a surface.

Light bouncing from one piece of geometry to the next is known as interreflection,
and can be modelled using [something to do with the next thing you were going to explain]...

We refer to the concept of light being blocked from reaching a surface as a shadow,
and understand it instinctively because...

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