Adaptive Hierarchical Visibility in a Tiled Architecture

Proceedings - SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 75-84

  Xie, Feng ^a   Shantz, Michael ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical z buffer; Occlusion culling; Visibility culling

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; GEOMETRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

3D GRAPHICS; DEPTH COMPLEXITY; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; HIERARCHICAL Z BUFFER; OCCLUSION CULLING; PERFORMANCE; TILED ARCHITECTURE; VISIBILITY CULLING; Z-BUFFER;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 0006556728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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