Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphic processing system – Integrated circuit
Patent
1998-03-26
2000-08-15
Tung, Kee M.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphic processing system
Integrated circuit
345430, 345515, 345521, G09G 500
Patent
active
061044156
ABSTRACT:
A method of a computer graphics system accelerates minified texture cache access by determining a starting address of a texture in s and t coordinates and a level of detail (LOD) of the texture. The texture includes tiles of texels stored in a memory. Then, the method of the present invention reads a succession of each of the tiles of the texture from the memory based on the starting address of a first of the succession of tiles. For each tile in the succession of tiles, each texel in the succession of texels being read is a distance of 2.sup.LOD texels from a previous texel in the succession of texels.
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Silicon Graphics Inc.
Tung Kee M.
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