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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1997
Mark Christopher Fowler, Colchester, VT (US);
Kirk Steffen Haskell, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Robert Spencer Horton, Colchester, VT (US);
Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok, Washington Township, NJ (US);
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Mark Van Horn, Raleigh, NC (US);
James Lewis van Welzen, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
While executing the standard graphics processing steps, problem polygons (i.e., those outside of a defined clip volume) are buffered for later processing, while the standard graphics processing continues, without the need for periodically reformatting data and performing clipping. After either a predefined number of polygons have been stored at the buffer location, or at such time as a change in the rendering state occurs, the buffered polygons are clipped.