Programming Graphics Hardware
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2004Author
Zeller, Cyril
Fernando, Randy
Wloka, Matthias
Harris, Mark
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The presentation gives the big picture for the entire tutorial. It introduces the notions and frameworks that will be revisited in more details during the following presentations: Overview of the tutorial. Real-time graphics concept. Graphics pipeline concept.How the graphics pipeline maps to the PC architecture (CPU <-> GPU). Controlling the GPU from the CPU: The driver and 3D API (OpenGL, Direct3D). Evolution of the PC graphics pipeline and 3D APIs through time from fixed function pipeline to today's programmable pipeline, with introduction to z-buffering, texturing, TnL, multi-texturing, anti-aliasing, vertex and pixel shaders. Review of real-time graphics applications.
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@inproceedings {10.2312:egt.20041034,
booktitle = {Eurographics 2004 - Tutorials},
editor = {},
title = {{Programming Graphics Hardware}},
author = {Zeller, Cyril and Fernando, Randy and Wloka, Matthias and Harris, Mark},
year = {2004},
publisher = {Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1017-4656},
DOI = {10.2312/egt.20041034}
}
booktitle = {Eurographics 2004 - Tutorials},
editor = {},
title = {{Programming Graphics Hardware}},
author = {Zeller, Cyril and Fernando, Randy and Wloka, Matthias and Harris, Mark},
year = {2004},
publisher = {Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1017-4656},
DOI = {10.2312/egt.20041034}
}