A characterization of ten rasterization techniques

  • Authors:
  • N. Gharachorloo;S. Gupta;R. F. Sproull;I. E. Sutherland

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates, Inc., 4516 Henry Street, Pittsburgh, PA;Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates, Inc., 4516 Henry Street, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

With widespread use of raster scan displays and the ever-increasing desire for faster interactivity, higher image complexity, and higher resolution in displayed images, several techniques have been proposed for rasterizing primitive graphical objects. This paper characterizes the performance of these techniques and shows how they evolve for more complex images on higher resolution displays. This characterization will not only show the strengths and deficiencies of existing rasterization techniques, but will also reveal new architectures for future raster graphics systems.