COMP290 Graphics Hardware -- Old News

• I've installed ISE, ModelSim, and XSTOOLs on hdwlab1, hdwlab4, hdwlab5, and hdwlab6.  There are spare monitors by those machines.  I also left two Xess cards and logic analyzers in the cabinet closest to the door.  The rest will be available for overnight checkout from Missy Wood.
• The ISE disks are available for checkout from Missy.  I put a sheet on instructions in with them.  The package also includes the Acute and XSTOOLs CDs.
• For Thursday 9/11 read Kurt Akeley, "Reality Engine Graphics", SIGGRAPH 93
• For Thursday 9/18, read Molnar, Cox, Ellsworth, and Fuchs. "A Sorting Classification of Parallel Rendering
• For Tuesday 9/16 read Segal and Akeley, The Design of the OpenGL Graphics Interface.  You may also want to read the first parts of the OpenGL Graphics System Specification
• Added a discussion forum.  Use your Onyen for access.
• For week of 9/29, read

  Pineda, "A parallel algorithm for polygon rasterization", SIGGRAPH 88 (note that you can access the ACM digital library both from campus and from off-campus -- see note on Links page), and

  Olano, Marc and Trey Greer, "Triangle Scan Conversion Using 2D Homogeneous Coordinates", Proceedings of the 1997 SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware.

  Supplementary reading:  Joel McCormack, Robert McNamara, "Tiled polygon traversal using half-plane edge functions", Graphics Hardware 2000.  The Pineda paper presents a method to decide whether a fragment is in a triangle, but only sketches ways to fidn the candidate fragments.  This paper describes a method to traverse triangles in tile order (good for caching).

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