Optimal Depth Buffer for Low-Cost Graphics Hardware

Proceedings - SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 67-73

  Lapidous, Eugene ^a   Jiao, Guofang ^a  

^a Microsystems Inc 4120 Network Circle   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth buffer; Depth precision; Screen Z; Visibility error; W buffer; Z buffer

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BUFFER STORAGE; COSTS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; VISIBILITY;

3D APPLICATION; DEPTH BUFFER; DEPTH PRECISION; DEPTH RESOLUTION; FLOATING POINTS; SCREEN Z; STORAGE FORMATS; VISIBILITY ERROR; W BUFFER; Z-BUFFER;

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