A survey of raster-based transparency techniques

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1023-1034

  Maule, Marilena ^a   Comba, João L D ^a   Torchelsen, Rafael P ^b   Bastos, Rui ^c  

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

^b Programa de Pos Graduacao em Agroecologia e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentavel   (Brazil)

^c NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragment sorting; Order independent transparency; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RASTERIZATION; SURVEYS;

FRAGMENT SORTING; GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS; LOW MEMORY; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; ORDER-INDEPENDENT TRANSPARENCIES; PROCESSING TIME; REAL TIME; TRADE OFF;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 80052688693     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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