κ+-buffer: Fragment synchronized κ-buffer

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 143-150

  Vasilakis, Andreas A ^a   Fudos, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

A buffer; GPU; Max heap; Multi fragment effects; Pixel synchronization; Real time; buffer

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PIXELS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

A-BUFFER; GPU; MAX-HEAP; MULTI-FRAGMENT EFFECTS; REAL-TIME;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84899668281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556700.2556702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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