Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware IV

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.

Klappentext

The latest developments in graphics hardware are reported in this book, which contains papers forming a comprehensive record of the 1989 Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware. The Eurographics workshops have become an established forum for an exchange of information on the latest developments in this field of growing importance. Starting with computationally expensive graphics algorithms, several architectural solutions are given and contrasted to general purpose solutions. The main focus is the potential to exploit the options of VLSI designs for high-performance graphics systems. Contributions give detailed descriptions of realized systems for volume visualization, high-speed ray tracers, a two-pass radiosity solution, and highly efficient solutions of the anti-aliasing problem. The reader is given an in-depth presentation of the various systems a designer can now choose from, including transputer solutions and the Intel i860TM processor.

Inhalt

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.