11 Combining Z - buffer Engines for Higher - Speed Rendering
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The desCribed architecture is based on a fusion of scan-line rendering and the conventional z-buffer algorithm. The frame buffers of several z-buffer engines are modified to scan out z-values as well as color values. Multiplexing devices combine the z/color streams from each pair of frame-buffers. These z/color streams are then combined by further multiplexers, creating a binary tree that funnels the z/color information from the many conventional frame buffers Into a single z/color stream. The color stream is then used to dnve a standard display device.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011