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18.4 Tuning the Raster Subsystem

An explosion of both data and operations is required to rasterize a polygon as individual pixels. Typically, the operations include depth comparison, Gouraud shading, color blending, logical operations, texture mapping, and possibly antialiasing. The following techniques can improve performance for a fill-limited applications.



 

David Blythe
1999-08-06