Polygon Rendering on a Stream Architecture

Appears in the Proceedings of the 2000 Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphics Hardware, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 2000, pp. 23-32.

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Reference

John D. Owens, William J. Dally, Ujval J. Kapasi, Scott Rixner, Peter Mattson, and Ben Mowery. Polygon Rendering on a Stream Architecture. In 2000 SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware, pages 23-32, August 2000.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Owens:2000:PRO,
   author = "John D. Owens and William J. Dally and Ujval J. Kapasi
             and Scott Rixner and Peter Mattson and Ben Mowery",
   title = "Polygon Rendering on a Stream Architecture",
   booktitle = "2000 SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware",
   year = 2000,
   month = aug,
   OPTpublisher = {ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics / ACM Press},
   pages = {23--32},
   keywords = {graphics hardware, stream processing, stream
               architecture, kernels, streams, polygon rendering,
               OpenGL, media processors, SIMD},
   annote = {The use of a programmable stream architecture in polygon
             rendering provides a powerful mechanism to address the
             high performance needs of today's complex scenes as well
             as the need for flexibility and programmability in the
             polygon rendering pipeline. We describe how a polygon
             rendering pipeline maps into data streams and kernels
             that operate on streams, and how this mapping is used to
             implement the polygon rendering pipeline on Imagine, a
             programmable stream processor. We compare our results on
             a cycle-accurate simulation of Imagine to representative
             hardware and software renderers. }, 
}