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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2000
Robert A. Drebin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy J. Van Hook, Atherton, CA (US);
Patrick Y. Law, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark M. Leather, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew Komsthoeft, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert A. Drebin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy J. Van Hook, Atherton, CA (US);
Patrick Y. Law, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mark M. Leather, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew Komsthoeft, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A hardware-accelerated recirculating programmable texture blender/shader arrangement circulates computed color and alpha data over multiple texture blending/shading cycles (stages) to provide multi-texturing and other effects. Up to sixteen independently programmable consecutive stages, forming a chain of blending operations, are supported for applying multiple textures to a single object in a single rendering pass.