Reducing shading on GPUs using quad-fragment merging

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Fatahalian, Kayvon ^a   Boulos, Solomon ^a   Hegarty, James ^a   Akeley, Kurt ^b   Mark, William R ^c   Moreton, Henry ^d   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU architecture; Micropolygons; Real time rendering

Indexed keywords

GPU ARCHITECTURES; MICRO-POLYGON; MICROPOLYGONS; REAL-TIME RENDERING;

IMAGE QUALITY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 77956377295     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1778765.1778804     Document Type: Article

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