Fully Procedural Graphics

Whitted, T.; Kajiya, J.

Fully Procedural Graphics

Date

2005

Authors

Whitted, T.
Kajiya, J.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The growing application of user-defined programs within graphics processing units (GPUs) has transformed the fixed-function display pipeline into a largely programmable pipeline. In this paper we propose that the elements fed through the pipeline be made entirely procedural. To enable this, we present a modification of the conventional graphics processor in which all procedures are executed in a common processor array and the rasterizer is augmented with a more general sampling controller. By executing both the geometric and shading elements of a procedural graphics model in a single processor we retain the data amplification that distinguishes procedural descriptions without a corresponding explosion of external bandwidth.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGGH/EGGH05/081-090
,
booktitle = {Graphics Hardware
},
editor = {Michael Meissner and Bengt-Olaf Schneider
},
title = {{Fully Procedural Graphics
}},
author = {Whitted, T. and 
Kajiya, J.
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3471
},
ISBN = {1-59593-086-8
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH05/081-090
}
}

URI

https://doi.org/10.2312/EGGH/EGGH05/081-090

Collections

EGGH05: SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2005

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