Title

A VLSI Perspective of Real-Time Hidden Surface Elimination

Authors

Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis
Takayuki D. Kimura, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

1980-01-01

Filename

WUCS-79-2.pdf

DOI:

10.7936/K7KW5DDQ

Technical Report Number

WUCS-79-2

Abstract

VLSI technology provides and demands new ways of solving large scale computational problems. In light of this fact, a piplelined version of a real-time hidden surface elimination algorithm is proposed. The approach is tuned to the requirements of the VLSI technology: it is simple and regular, employs only local communciation, and attains a high degree of parallelism. The feasibility of the technique is demonstated for a computer graphics system where objects are defined in terms of planar triangular surface elements. A case is made in terms of the early 1980's technology.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7KW5DDQ

Recommended Citation

Roman, Gruia-Catalin and Kimura, Takayuki D., "A VLSI Perspective of Real-Time Hidden Surface Elimination" Report Number: WUCS-79-2 (1980). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/871