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    • IMEM: An Intelligent Memory for Bump- and Reflection-Mapping 

      Kugler, Anders (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      Data path simplification in the context of reflection- and bumpmapping hardware opens new solutions in the design of rendering and shading circuits. We are proposing a novel approach to rendering bump- and reflection-mapped ...
    • Neon: A Single-Chip 3D Workstation Graphics Accelerator 

      McCormack, Joel; McNamara, Robert; Gianos, Christopher; Seiler, Larry; Jouppi, Norman P.; Correll, Ken (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      High-performance 3D graphics accelerators traditionally require multiple chips on multiple boards, including geometry, rasterizing, pixel processing, and texture mapping chips. These designs are often scalable: they can ...
    • PAVLOV: A Programmable Architecture for Volume Processing 

      Kreeger, Kevin; Kaufman, Arie (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      We present a parallel 2D mesh connected architecture with SIMD processing elements. The design allows for real-time volume rendering as well as interactive 30 segmentation and 1D feature extraction. This is possible because ...
    • Performance Issues of a Distributed Frame Buffer on a Multicomputer 

      Wei, Bin; Clark, Douglas W.; Felten, Edward W.; Li, Kai (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      A multiple-port, distributed frame buffer has been recently proposed to support parallel rendering on multicomputers. This paper describes an implementation of such a distributed frame buffer for the Intel Paragon routing ...
    • Prefetching in a Texture Cache Architecture 

      lgehy, Homan; Eldridge, Matthew; Proudfoot, Kekoa (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      Texture mapping has become so ubiquitous in real-time graphics hardware that many systems are able to perform filtered texturing without any penalty in fill rate. The computation rates available in hardware have been ...
    • Simple Models of the Impact of Overlap in Bucket Rendering 

      Chen, Milton; Stall, Gordon; Igehy, Homan; Proudfoot, Kekoa; Hanrahan, Pat (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      Bucket rendering is a technique in which the framebuffer is subdivided into coherent regions that are rendered independently. The primary benelits of this technique are the decrease in the size of the working set of ...
    • View-independent Environment Maps 

      Heidrich, Wolfgang; Seidel, Hans-Peter (The Eurographics Association, 1998)
      Environment maps are widely used for approximating reflections in hardware-accelerated rendering applications. Unfortunately, the parameterizations for environment maps used in today s graphics hardware severely undersample ...