article · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1988
The triangle processor and normal vector shader
Michael F. Deering, Stephanie Winner, Bic Schediwy, Chris Duffy, Neil Hunt
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Current affordable architectures for high-speed display of shaded 3D objects operate orders of magnitude too slowly. Recent advances in floating point chip technology have outpaced polygon fill time, making the memory access bottleneck between the drawing processor and the frame buffer the most significant factor to be accelerated. Massively parallel VLSI system have the potential to bypass this bottleneck, but to date only at very high cost. We describe a new more affordable VLSI solution. A pipeline of triangle processors rasterizes the geometry, then a further pipeline of shading processors applies Phong shading with multiple light sources. The triangle processor pipeline performs 100 billion additions per second, and the shading pipeline performs two billion multiplies per second. This allows 3D graphics systems to be built capable of displaying more than one million triangles per second. We show the results of an anti-aliasing technique, and discuss extensions to texture mapping, shadows, and environment maps.
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Deering, M. F., Winner, S., Schediwy, B., Duffy, C., & Hunt, N. (1988). The triangle processor and normal vector shader. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 22(4), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/378456.378468
Deering, Michael F., et al. “The triangle processor and normal vector shader.” ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 4, 1988, pp. 21–30, https://doi.org/10.1145/378456.378468.
Deering, Michael F., Stephanie Winner, Bic Schediwy, Chris Duffy, and Neil Hunt. 1988. “The triangle processor and normal vector shader.” ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 22 (4): 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/378456.378468.
Deering, M.F. et al. (1988) ‘The triangle processor and normal vector shader’, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 22(4), pp. 21–30. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/378456.378468.
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year = {1988},
doi = {10.1145/378456.378468}
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