A NORMAL-BUFFER VECTORIZED SURFACE SHADING MODEL

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1985
Authors
Curington, Ian J.
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
A surface rendering implementation is described that separates visibility operations from surface shading operations with a Normal-Buffer data structure. This allows for scene complexity independent shading operations at a fixed computational cost per frame. The Normal-Buffer approach also allows the implementation of a fully vectorized surface-shading algorithm when the shading model is applied to each pixel in the scene. The vectorized shader is described using an array processor with a directly attatched frame store in a high performance scene-generation system.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:eg.19851030
,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Conference Proceedings
},
editor = {
C.E. Vandoni
},
title = {{
A NORMAL-BUFFER VECTORIZED SURFACE SHADING MODEL
}},
author = {
Curington, Ian J.
},
year = {
1985
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1017-4656
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {
10.2312/eg.19851030
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/eg.19851030
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EG1985 Proceedings (Technical Papers)