The Triangle Shading Engine

Ackermann, Hans-Josef; Hornung, Christoph

The Triangle Shading Engine

Files

003-013.pdf (532.83 KB)

Date

1990

Authors

Ackermann, Hans-Josef
Hornung, Christoph

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper describes an algorithm implementing the Gouraud-shading of triangles and its realization in hardware. Different realizations using span shading hard ware are discussed. Their drawbacks lead to the concept of a triangle shader, designed as an ASIC. Interfaced to a signal processor for geometry computations, this chip will provide an effective and low-cost 3D-extension to graphics subsystems in the PC environment.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGGH/EGGH90/003-013
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {Richard Grimsdale and Arie Kaufman
},
title = {{The Triangle Shading Engine
}},
author = {Ackermann, Hans-Josef and 
Hornung, Christoph
},
year = {1990
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {3-540-54291-4
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGGH/EGGH90/003-013
}
}