Reorganized anisotropic sampling order

Details Reorganized anisotropic sampling order Reorganized anisotropic sampling order

2007-01-23

2007-01-23

Zimmerman, Mark (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

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10965069

ABSTRACT:
The current invention involves new systems and methods for reorganizing a texture sampling order that is used to read texels from a texel cache. When anisotropic filtering is used to process the texels read from the texel cache, the texels are read in an order based on a major axis alignment. Reorganizing texture sampling order to use the order based on the major axis alignment results in improved texel cache locality, thereby improving texel cache performance.

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