Memory-efficient single-pass GPU rendering of multifragment effects

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1307-1316

  Wang, Wencheng ^a   Xie, Guofu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

accurate rendering; depth ordering; fixed amount of memory; large models; Multifragment effects

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE RENDERING; BOUNDED MEMORY; DEPTH ORDERING; GPU RENDERING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; LARGE MODELS; MULTIFRAGMENT EFFECTS; SINGLE PASS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84879243639     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.320     Document Type: Article

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