文档介绍：Computer Graphics Volume 15, Number 3 August 1981
Parallel Processing Image Synthesis and Anti-Aliasing
Richard Weinberg
Computer Science Department
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455 *
ABSTRACT In any anti-aliasing scheme, the
The continuing evolution of contribution of all the visible objects
microelectronics provides the tools for (even small ones) within a certain
developing new methods of synthesizing distance from the center of the pixel
digital images by utilizing parallel being evaluated need to be taken into
processing architectures which hold the account. The final pixel color
promise of reliability, flexibility and determined is then bination of the
low cost. Beginning with the earliest visible colors or intensities.
real-time flight simulators, parallel
processing architectures for image PARALLEL PROCESSING IMAGE SYNTHESIS
synthesis have been built, but In order to implement a real- time
"anti-aliasing" remains a problem. A graphics system, special purpose
parallel processing architecture is architectures are employed to achieve the
described and simulated which consists of fast data rates needed to produce images
a serial chain of processors which in a cost effective manner. Parallel
produces as output a depth sorted list of architectures attempt to meet the speed
those objects which are a