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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2002
Michael G. Lavelle, Saratoga, CA (US);
David C. Kehlet, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael A. Wasserman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Nandini Ramani, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ranjit S. Oberoi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics system configured to apply multiple layers of texture information to batches of primitives. The graphics system collects primitives into a batch that share a common set of texture layers to be applied. The batch is limited so that the total estimate size of the batch is less than or equal to a storage capacity of a texture accumulation buffer. The graphics system stores samples (or fragments) corresponding to the batch primitives in the texture accumulation buffer between the application of successive texture layers.