Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Parallel processing techniques for hidden surface removal
SIGGRAPH '79 Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A characterization of ten rasterization techniques
SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A generic solution to polygon clipping
Communications of the ACM
A Software Testbed for the Development of 3D Raster Graphics Systems
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Subanosecond pixel rendering with million transistor chips
SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Phled45: An enhanced version of caesar supporting 45° geometries
DAC '84 Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation Conference
Parallel processing image synthesis and anti-aliasing
SIGGRAPH '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A frame buffer system with enhanced functionality
SIGGRAPH '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A system design revolution (Panel Session)
SIGGRAPH '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A software test-bed for the development of 3-D raster graphics systems
SIGGRAPH '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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A color interactive display system which produces images of three-dimensional polygons and labels on a frame buffer display device is being developed. The entire image is scan converted and written into the frame buffer whenever it is modified. Since an entire image cannot be written into the frame buffer faster than 4.6 frames per second for the particular device chosen, an illusion of continuous motion cannot be supported. However, a rate of 3 frames per second has been found sufficient to provide feedback to continuous user input. In order to achieve this frame rate for a reasonably complex picture, the display device has been microprogrammed to accept run length encoded data and text, and the instruction set of the computer has been extended by microprogramming special-purpose instructions which perform visible surface calculations. These microprograms currently can process a scene which consists of up to 170 polygons at 3 frames per second.