Optimal initial rasterization starting point

• Main Authors: BATTLE JAMES T, YUE LORDSON L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.05.2007
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A frame buffer is divided into tiles of, for example, 32 by 32 pixels. Triangles (and portions thereof) that are within a given tile are rasterized one triangle at a time into the tile location. This process repeats for each tile in the image frame. A sorting circuit generates control bits represent...