Z3: an economical hardware technique for high-quality antialiasing and transparency
HWWS '99 Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware
Multi-fragment effects on the GPU using the k-buffer
Proceedings of the 2007 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on High Performance Graphics
Technical Section: A survey of raster-based transparency techniques
Computers and Graphics
Memory-Efficient Order-Independent Transparency with Dynamic Fragment Buffer
SIBGRAPI '12 Proceedings of the 2012 25th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images
k+-buffer: fragment synchronized k-buffer
Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
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Hybrid transparency is an approach for real-time approximation of order-independent transparency. Our hybrid approach combines an accurate compositing, of a few core transparent layers, with a quick approximation, for the remaining layers. Its main advantage, the ability to operate in bounded memory without noticeable artifacts, enables its usage with high scene complexity and image resolution, which other approaches fail to handle. Hybrid transparency is suitable for highly-parallel execution, can be implemented in current GPUs and further improved, with minimal architecture changes. We present quality, memory, and performance analysis and comparisons which demonstrate that hybrid transparency is able to generate high-quality images at competitive frames rates and with the lowest memory consumption among comparable OIT techniques.