Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Mulcahy

Thomas W Olsen

Mark A Lawrence

Miles Cohen

Robert I Brown

Jason Hartman

Kanwal VedBrat

Andrew M Precious

Alexander Stevenson

Chris Raubacher

Ben Constable

Bilgem Cakir

Brett Bloomquist

Chris Kam Ming Chui

Samrach Tun

Gerhard A Schneider

Anthony Hodsdon

Methods and computer-readable media for displaying two-dimensional objects on a display device are disclosed. Rendering requests are received from an application to render two-dimensionally modeled graphics to a display device. Primitive geometries of drawing calls of the rendering requests are tessellated into sequences of triangles. The vertices of the triangles are mapped to a vertex buffer along with an index to identify associated constant data. Batching operations store and communicate calls and mapped data to a graphics processing unit by way of a three-dimensional rendering application program interface. Constant data associated with the mapped data are indexed and appended together in a constant buffer, thereby allowing drawing calls to be coalesced. A staging buffer and a staging texture are provided for batching text anti-aliasing operations. Shader fragments are precompiled and organized by way of a predetermined lookup table.

Leveraging graphics processors to optimize rendering 2-D objects

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Thomas Mulcahy