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From: gg10@prism.gatech.EDU (Gregory L. Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: A-Buffer source (and plotting lots of triangles)?
Message-ID: <11657@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 90 00:53:41 GMT
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In article <10491@odin.corp.sgi.com>, robert@texas.esd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner) writes:
> I implemented a renderer with a Reyes-like front end, and two scan 
> conversion back ends:  scanline Z buffer with 4x4 or 8x8
> stochastically jittered subsamples,  an alpha buffer with 4x4 or
> 8x8 masks.
> 
> Robert Skinner
> robert@sgi.com

Cook, et al., said that the Reyes system worked really well when splitting
patches, but not polygons.  How about just simple triangles?  Has anyone
tried writing a rendering system based on Reyes which just uses simple
midpoint subdivision (as in fractals but w/o the random displacement)?  I'm
curious to know how the system performs compared to a simple Z-buffer w/ 
straight scan-conversion and no stochastic sampling.

Thanks in advance,

Greg Galloway
gg10@prism.gatech.edu