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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric B. Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
Rouslan L. Dimitrov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ignacio Llamas Ubieto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patrick James Neill, Portland, OR (US);
Yury Uralsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Albert Meixner, Mountain View, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for shading primitive fragments. A target buffer may be recast when shaded samples that are covered by a primitive fragment are generated at a first shading rate using a first sampling mode, the shaded samples are stored in the target buffer that is associated with the first sampling mode and the first shading rate, a second sampling mode is determined, and the target buffer is associated with the second sampling mode. A sampling mode and/or shading rate may be changed for a primitive. A primitive fragment that is associated with a first sampling mode and a first shading rate is received and a second sampling mode is determined for the primitive fragment. Shaded samples corresponding to the primitive fragment are generated, at a second shading rate, using the second sampling mode and the shaded samples are stored in a target buffer.