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

Authors:
Norman P. Jouppi;Chun-Fa Chang
Affiliations:
Western Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation, 250 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA;Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #B175, Sitterson Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
Venue:
HWWS '99 Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware
Year:
1999

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