Multi-fragment effects on the GPU using the k-buffer

Proceedings - I3D 2007, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 97-104

  Bavoil, Louis ^a   Callahan, Steven P ^a   Lefohn, Aaron ^b   Comba, João L D ^c   Silva, Cláudio T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Neoptica ^*  (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blending; CSG; Fragment processing; Graphics hardware; Transparency; Visibility ordering; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID GEOMETRY; DEPTH OF FIELD; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FRAGMENT PROCESSING; GRAPHICS ALGORITHMS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; ISO SURFACE; LIMITING PERFORMANCE; MULTI-PASS; MULTIPLE PASS; PIXEL LOCATION; VISIBILITY ORDERING; Z-BUFFER;

BLENDING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIXELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPARENCY; VISIBILITY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77950558346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230100.1230117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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