Hardware support for adaptive tessellation of Bézier surfaces based on local tests

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 233-250

  Espino, F J ^a   Boo M ^a   Amor, M ^b   Bruguera, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive tessellation; B zier surfaces; Computer graphics; Graphics hardware

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE TESSELLATION; GRAPHICS CARDS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; TESSELLATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33846931866     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2006.10.011     Document Type: Article

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