New Graphics Pipeline Approach Speeds Up Atomic Primitives Rendering

• Authors: Jim X. Chen
• Venue: Computing in Science and Engineering
• Year: 2003

Many graphics and visualization applications require fast rendering and animation of finely detailed objects constructed of what i call atomic primitives. A primitive is the basic graphics shape-such as a line or triangle-that is scan-converted into a frame buffer. An atomic primitive is a very small primitive. In this article, I introduce new approaches in graphics pipeline hardware design that can speed up the rendering of these atomic primitives.