Delay streams for graphics hardware

ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers, SIGGRAPH '03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 792-800

  Aila, Timo ^a   Miettinen, Ville ^b   Nordlund, Petri ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

3D graphics hardware; antialiasing; occlusion culling; order independent transparency; stream processing

Indexed keywords

3D GRAPHICS; 3D GRAPHICS HARDWARE; CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; OCCLUSION CULLING; PIXEL PROCESSING; STREAM PROCESSING;

ANTI-ALIASING; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; HYDRAULICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIXELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPARENCY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 4143090583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1201775.882347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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