Memory-optimized order-independent transparency with Dynamic Fragment Buffer

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

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

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

^b UFF   (Brazil)

^c NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Order independent transparency

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; PIXELS;

COMPOSITING; EXACT ORDER; MEMORY OPTIMIZED; ORDER-INDEPENDENT TRANSPARENCIES;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 84886380392     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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