The SAGE graphics architecture

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 683-692

  Deering, Michael ^a   Naegle, David ^a,b  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UMPK27 101 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

anti aliasing; frame buffer algorithms; graphics hardware; graphics systems; hardware systems; rendering hardware; video

Indexed keywords

FRAME BUFFER; FRAME BUFFER ALGORITHMS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS SYSTEMS; HARDWARE SYSTEM; RENDERING HARDWARE; VIDEO;

ANTI-ALIASING; BANDPASS FILTERS; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIXELS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 4143056014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566570.566638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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