Depth-fighting aware methods for multifragment rendering

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 967-977

  Vasilakis, Andreas Alexandros ^a   Fudos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

A buffer; Depth peeling; multi fragment rendering; visibility ordering; Z fighting

Indexed keywords

A-BUFFER; COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISONS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; MULTI-FRAGMENT RENDERING; PIXEL LOCATION; RENDERING METHODS; VISIBILITY ORDERING; Z-FIGHTING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84876136213     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.300     Document Type: Article

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