Efficient depth peeling via bucket sort

Proceedings of the HPG 2009: Conference on High-Performance Graphics 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-58

  Liu, Fang ^a   Huang, Meng Cheng ^a   Liu, Xue Hui ^a   Wu, En Hua ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Bucket sort; Depth peeling; Graphics hardware; Histogram equalization; Max min blending; Multiple render target (MRT); Order independent transparency (OIT)

Indexed keywords

BUCKET SORT; DEPTH COMPLEXITY; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; DEPTH RANGE; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GROUND TRUTH; MAX/MIN BLENDING; MULTI-PASS; MULTIPLE RENDER TARGET; NONUNIFORM; PIXEL LOCATION; RASTERIZATION; SUB-INTERVAL; SUBINTERVALS;

BLENDING; GEOMETRY; PIXELS; TARGETS; TRANSPARENCY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70450194809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1572769.1572779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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