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>>5683968
antialiasing smooths out the edges of 3D faces
ambient occlusion adds shadows where faces intersect
mipmaps are progressively smaller versions of a texture, used when the texture's small enough on your screen that using the full-size version is not only pointless, but would create nasty moire patterns with nearest neighbor interpolation

here's what the various mipmap options do: https://imgur.com/a/ETSgfp1
pic related: what anisotropic filtering does