Deferred blending: Image composition for single-pass point rendering

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-189

  Zhang, Yanci ^a   Pajarola, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpha blending; GPU processing; Hardware acceleration; Point based rendering; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INTERPOLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSPARENCY; VISIBILITY;

ALPHA BLENDING; GPU PROCESSING; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; POINT BASED RENDERING (PBR);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34047183659     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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