Intel Corporation

Prosun Chatterjee

Larry D Seiler

Steven Spangler

Benjamin Pletcher

Joy Chandra

Hema Chand Nalluri

Yoav Harel

A method includes computing an anisotropic filter with a major-axis and a minor-axis for a pixel to be displayed on screen-space, where the anisotropic filter is to be applied to corresponding MIPs on a texture map. Additionally, the method includes varying the length of the major-axis of the anisotropic filter based on the angle of the major-axis of anisotropy with respect to the screen space. Further, the method includes determining a number of texels from the texture map that are to be sampled in the anisotropic filter based on the length of the modified major-axis. The color of the pixel may be determined based on the texels sampled in the anisotropic filter.

Angle-dependent anisotropic filtering

A method includes computing an anisotropic filter with a major-axis and a minor-axis for a pixel to be displayed on screen-space, wherein the anisotropic filter is to be applied to corresponding MIPs on a texture map. Additionally, the method includes varying the length of the major-axis of the anisotropic filter based on the angle of the major-axis of anisotropy with respect to the screen space. Further, the method includes determining a number of texels from the texture map that are to be sampled in the anisotropic filter based on the length of the modified major-axis. The color of the pixel may be determined based on the texels sampled in the anisotropic filter.

A method, graphics processing unit, and system are described herein. The method for adaptive anisotropic filtering includes calculating a number of ways of anisotropy based on a computed level of detail of a texture map and applying a bilinear low pass filter to a texture map's closest two MIP maps using a processor. An effective number of ways and filter sizes may be computed on each of the closest two closest MIP maps. Additionally, the closest two MIP maps may be sampled at their respective effective number of ways. The method also includes applying a corresponding sized low pass filters to each of the closest two MIP maps, and combining the filtered closest two MIP maps using a weighted sum based on a fractional part of a computed level of detail.

Adaptive anisotropic filtering

Embodiments described herein include a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit includes a plurality of execution units. The graphics processing unit also includes a plurality of sampler units. Each sampler unit corresponds to a sampler dispatch logic unit and at least one execution unit, and the sampler dispatch logic units are used to network the plurality of sampler units.

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