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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2004
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for texture shading in a hardware graphics processor. Initially, a plurality of texture coordinates is identified. Further, it is determined whether a hardware graphics processor is operating in a texture shader mode. If the hardware graphics processor is operating in the texture shader mode, the texture coordinates are mapped to colors utilizing a plurality of texture shader stages in the hardware graphics processor. If, however, the hardware graphics processor is not operating in the texture shader mode, the texture coordinates are mapped to colors utilizing a conventional graphics application program interface (API) in conjunction with the hardware graphics processor.