Comment by gliptic

2 months ago

The name for it _is_ abliterate. It's a portmanteau of ablate and obliterate.

No tis not. The terminology has medical origins, and it is very much this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablation

"Ablation (Latin: ablatio – removal) is the removal or destruction of something from an object by vaporization, chipping, erosive processes, or by other means."

which is what one does to the model during... well, ablation.