PCU: The programmable culling unit

Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hasselgren, Jon ^a   Akenine Möller, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Culling; Hardware; Rasterization; Shaders

Indexed keywords

CULLING TECHNIQUES; FRAGMENT PROGRAM UNITS; RASTERIZATION; SHADERS; CULLING; FLEXIBLE SUPPORTS; FRAGMENT PROGRAMS; GRAPHICS HARDWARES; HARDWARE OVERHEADS; PROGRAMMABLE CULLING UNITS; SPEED-UP;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTEGRATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 57149117346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1275808.1276492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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