New 3D graphics rendering engine architecture for direct tessellation of spline surfaces

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3515, Issue II, 2005, Pages 224-231

  Sfarti, Adrian ^a   Barsky, Brian A ^a   Kosloff, Todd J ^a   Pasztor, Egon ^a   Kozlowski, Alex ^a   Roman, Eric ^a   Perelman, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; SERVERS; VECTORS; ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; ENGINES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D GRAPHICS; GPU; TEXTURE COORDINATES; NORMAL VECTOR; RENDERING ENGINE; SPLINE SURFACES; SURFACE PATCHES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 25144489153     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11428848_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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