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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for dynamic polygon or primitive sorting for improved culling. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a rasterization unit to receive a plurality of polygons to be rasterized in an original ordering; and depth test evaluation logic to determine whether a current polygon is fully visible, partially visible or occluded; and reordering logic to incrementally alter the original ordering by swapping each occluded polygon with another polygon positioned relatively lower in the original ordering and by swapping each fully visible polygon with another polygon positioned relatively higher in the original ordering.