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A Software Testbed for the Development of 3D Raster Graphics Systems

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ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 1, Issue 1

Pages 43 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1145/357290.357295

Published: 01 January 1982 Publication History

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