3D Graphics For Consumer Applications -How Realistic Does it Have to Be?

Scan-line composition of z-buffer images is an extension of the basic z-buffer algorithm, in which z-values are used to determine which components of an image are

Each processor is given a subset of the data base and performs the intersection tests for all its objects and all the rays.. This does not have the drawbacks of

If more than one access to the texture buffer is necessary (tri-linear blending) or if the texture buffer is not ready due to refresh cycles, the parts of the

The 3D texture mapping hardware will then rasterize and texture map each polygon and perform the OpenGL fragment operations, like blending the data into the

Notice that we interlace the CPU and graphics hardwarr computation by initiating the texture mapping calculations for scanline y + 1 before doing the shading

Recently, Schaufler[5, 6] has shown how to reproject single layer z-buffer images using texture mapping hardware, by storing the depth in the alpha channel, and testing it for

We have presented three examples of delicate objects which where reconstructed using three different approaches in 3D Computer Graphics, namely Inventor, sophisticated texture

We present a new software texture caching algorithm that optimizes the use of texture memory in current graphics hardware by dynamically allocating more memory to the textures that