Glossary: Letter Z

The native file formats of Maxon ZBrush, a digital sculpting application. .zpr stores full project files; .ztl stores individual ZTools (3D objects). Standard in character modeling for games and film.

A widely used archive file format that supports lossless data compression. Created by Phil Katz in 1989, it is natively supported by all major operating systems.

A fast lossless compression algorithm developed by Facebook/Meta. It targets real-time compression scenarios with compression ratios similar to zlib but with much faster speeds.

A security framework that requires all users, whether inside or outside the organization's network, to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted access to applicati...

An attack that targets a previously unknown vulnerability in software or hardware before the vendor has released a patch. The term "zero-day" refers to the fact that developers have had zero days to f...

A model's ability to perform a task it was not explicitly trained on, without any task-specific examples. Zero-shot capabilities emerge in large models that have learned general enough representations...

A general-purpose systems programming language designed as an improvement over C, with a focus on safety and simplicity. Zig features compile-time code execution, no hidden control flow, and interoper...