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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Douglas A. Voorhies, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Foskett, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ;
Abstract
Clip-less rasterization is provided by a plurality of operations. First, a primitive is received that is defined by a plurality of vertices. Each of such vertices includes a W-value. Thereafter, an area is identified based on the W-values. Such area is representative of a portion of a display to be drawn corresponding to the primitive.