Method for reducing the rendering load for high depth complexity

Details Method for reducing the rendering load for high depth complexity Method for reducing the rendering load for high depth complexity

1998-01-07

2000-04-18

Powell, Mark R.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

345422, 345426, 345507, 345509, G06F 1500

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060521252

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for rendering a real-time synthetic environment on a computer display. A hidden surface removal technique is provided which combines an efficient pixel rendering architecture with a simplified modeling process. Specifically, the computer pixel graphics hardware processing load is balanced against a software geometric load to obtain optimum rendering performance by utilizing a "full" buffer in combination with adaptations of the z-Buffer and priority-list algorithms.

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