DocumentCode
956620
Title
Quadratic Surface Rendering on a Logic-Enhanced Frame-Buffer Memory
Author
Goldfeather, Jack ; Fuchs, Henry
Author_Institution
Carleton College
Volume
6
Issue
1
fYear
1986
Firstpage
48
Lastpage
59
Abstract
A new system, Pixel-powers, has been designed for the rapid rendering of curved surfaces. This system is a generalization of the design of our logic-enhanced framed buffer memory system, Pixel-planes. Our new design can directly evaluate quadratic expressions of the form Ax2 + Bxy + Cy2 + Dx + Ey + F for every pixel (x,y) in the image in parallel. Sample images generated by a high-level simulation of the new system are shown.
Keywords
Added delay; Computational modeling; Joining processes; Lifting equipment; Real time systems; Rendering (computer graphics); Tree data structures; Tree graphs;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1716
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCG.1986.276610
Filename
4056708
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