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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Applicant:
David Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Inventor:
David Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Assignee:
3DLabs Inc. Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/40 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A binning architecture that allows opaque and transparent primitives to be segregated automatically into pairs of bins covering the same bin rectangle on the screen. When the frame is complete, the opaque bin will be rendered first and then the transparent bin will be rendered repeatedly using the depth peeling algorithm until all the layers have been resolved. This will happen automatically without requiring the application to isolate and store the transparent primitives until all of the opaque primitives have been rendered or submit the transparent primitives repeated until all of the transparent layers have been resolved.