The latest developments in graphics hardware are presented in this comprehensive report of the 1989 Euro- graphics workshop on graphics hardware. The Eurographics workshops have become an established forum for an exchange of information concerning the latest developments in this growing field.

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1. Algorithms and Architectures.- Towards a Taxonomy for Display Processors.- A Hardware Algorithm for Fast Realistic Image Synthesis.- The HERO Algorithm for Ray-Tracing Octrees.- A VLSI Architecture for Anti-Aliasing.- PS: Polygon Streams A Distributed Architecture for Incremental Computation Applied to Graphics.- A Generalised Parallel Architecture for Image Based Algorithms.- Two-level Pipelining of Systolic Array Graphics Engines.- 2 Systems.- A Dedicated Graphics Processor SIGHT-2.- Viewing and Rendering Processor for a Volume Visualization System.- Presentation of the Cubi9000: A Graphics System based on Inmos T800 Transputers.- A Virtual Memory System Organization for Bit-Mapped.- A Real-Time Raster Scan Display for 3-D Graphics.- The Graphics Unit of the INTEL I80860.- A Chinese-Character and Graphics Workstation.- A Distributed Frame Buffer within a Window-Oriented High Performance Graphics System.- List of Participants.