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Z3: an economical hardware technique for high-quality antialiasing and transparency

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SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Conference On Graphics Hardware archive
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 85 - 93

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-170-4

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Norman P. Jouppi	Western Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation, 250 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA
Chun-Fa Chang	Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #B175, Sitterson Hall, Chapel Hill, NC

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

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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