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Real-time display of quadric on the I.M.O.G.E.N.E. machine

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Sylvain Karpf,

Christophe Chaillou,

Eric Nyiri,

Michel MeriauxAuthors Info & Claims

SMA '91: Proceedings of the first ACM symposium on Solid modeling foundations and CAD/CAM applications

Pages 269 - 277

https://doi.org/10.1145/112515.112549

Published: 01 May 1991 Publication History

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Real-time display of quadric on the I.M.O.G.E.N.E. machine
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Graphics processors
  2. Parallel computing methodologies

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DOI:10.1145/112515

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Bruijns JKaufman AStraßer WKnittel GPfister H(1998)Quadratic Bezier triangles as drawing primitivesProceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS workshop on Graphics hardware10.1145/285305.285307(15-ff.)Online publication date: 1-Aug-1998
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/285305.285307
Karpf SChaillou C(1992)An efficient massively parallel rasterization scheme for a high performance graphics systemProceedings of the Seventh Eurographics conference on Graphics Hardware10.5555/2421249.2421267(158-169)Online publication date: 5-Sep-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2421249.2421267
Lefévère VKarpf SChaillou CMériaux M(1991)The I.M.O.G.E.N .E. machineProceedings of the Sixth Eurographics conference on Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware: rendering, visualization and rasterization hardware10.5555/2421230.2421238(54-73)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1991
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