What is a Blit in SDL?

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Marks picture Marks · Sep 13, 2010 · Viewed 17.8k times · Source

In the SDL wiki it says

Use this function to perform a fast blit from the source surface to the destination surface.

However that doesn't help me much.

What does the term surface blitting mean in this context?

Answer

Radomir Dopieralski picture Radomir Dopieralski · Sep 13, 2010

Basically it means copying the image from one surface to another -- possibly cropped and shifted.

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