The rendering architecture of the DN10000VS

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The rendering architecture of the DN10000VS

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Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents

Dallas, TX, USA

Pages: 299 - 307

Year of Publication: 1990

ISBN:0-89791-344-2

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David Kirk	Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard, 300 Apollo Drive, Chelmsford, MA and California Institute of Technology, Computer Science 256-80, Pasadena, CA
Douglas Voorhies	Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard, 300 Apollo Drive, Chelmsford, MA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The Appollo DN10000VS treats graphics as an integral part of the system architecture. Graphics requirements influence the entire system design. All floating-point computations for graphics are performed by the CPU(s), while rasterizing is handled by simplified hardware having no microcode. We decided to support alpha buffering, quadratic interpolation, and texture mapping directly in hardware. This partitioning reduces the cost of a high-end workstation, without sacrificing high rendering quality and performance. This paper describes some of the design trade-offs which led to the final system design.

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