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The Reyes image rendering architecture

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Robert L. Cook,

Loren Carpenter,

Edwin CatmullAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '87: Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 95 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/37401.37414

Published: 01 August 1987 Publication History

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An architecture is presented for fast high-quality rendering of complex images. All objects are reduced to common world-space geometric entities called micropolygons, and all of the shading and visibility calculations operate on these micropolygons. Each type of calculation is performed in a coordinate system that is natural for that type of calculation. Micropolygons are created and textured in the local coordinate sysem of the object, with the result that texture filtering is simplified and improved. Visibility is calculated in screen space using stochastic point sampling with a z buffer. There are no clipping or inverse perspective calculations. Geometric and texture locality are exploited to minimize paging and to support models that contain arbitrarily many primitives.

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The Reyes image rendering architecture
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Other architectures
      1. Special purpose systems
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics

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