DiagSplit: Parallel, crack-free, adaptive tessellation for micropolygon rendering

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Fisher, Matthew ^a   Fatahalian, Kayvon ^a   Boulos, Solomon ^a   Akeley, Kurt ^b   Mark, William R ^c   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Micropolygons; Real time rendering; Tessellation

Indexed keywords

CRACK FREE; HIGH QUALITY; MICRO-POLYGON; PARALLELIZATIONS; PARAMETRIC DOMAINS; PARAMETRIC SURFACES; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SUB-PATCHES; T JUNCTIONS;

CRACKS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 77749243099     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1661412.1618496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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