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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2006
Vimal S. Parikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vimal S. Parikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping engine and an output unit connected to the clipping engine. The clipping engine is configured to clip an input graphics primitive with respect to a set of clipping planes to derive spatial attributes of new vertices. The output unit is configured to identify a subset of the new vertices that defines an output graphics primitive, and the output unit is configured to derive non-spatial attributes of the subset of the new vertices to produce the output graphics primitive.