"A Display Controller for an Object-levelFrame Store System"

Abstract

In [3] and [1] a new architecture for a Computer Image Generating (CIG) system designed to have optimal interaction support for realistic 3D graphics has been presented. There it was stated that from an interaction paint of view­ there iS no need to have access to an image representation as low as the pixel level. This and the fact that the performance and resolution to a major extend has been limited by the pixe update speed enforced by memory technologies. led us to the conclusion that it should be investigated whether a CRT display could be refreshed from an object-level representation of the frame instead of the conventional pixel-level frame store. In thiS paper we present as a result of thiS study an architecture of a (multi-processor) Display Controller that is capable to directly refresh a raster display from such an Object-level frame representation.