The SAGE graphics architecture

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 683-692

  Deering, Michael ^b   Naegle, David ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anti aliasing; Frame buffer algorithms; Graphics hardware; Graphics systems; Hardware systems; Rendering hardware; Video

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKETING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

MITCHELL-NETRAVALI FILTER; SCALABLE ADVANCED GRAPHICS ENVIRONMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036989647     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/566654.566638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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