Z3: An Economical Hardware Technique for High-Quality Antialiasing and Transparency

Proceedings - SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 85-93

  Jouppi, Norman P ^a   Chang, Chun Fa ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

A buffer; Anti aliasing; Supersampling; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ALIASING; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRANSPARENCY;

A-BUFFER; FLOATING POINTS; HIGH QUALITY; LOW COST HARDWARE; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; OPAQUE SURFACES; STORAGE SPACES; SUPERSAMPLING; TRANSPARENT SURFACES; Z VALUE;

PIXELS;

EID: 0012580521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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