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A distributed frame buffer for rapid dynamic changes to 3D scenes

Coppen et al., 1995

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Document ID
14748256832685780915
Author
Coppen D
Hawes D
Slater M
Davison A
Publication year
Publication venue
Computers & graphics

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This paper describes a distributed frame buffer architecture, based on the Tiling Algorithm for dynamic modification, and designed to achieve fast display updates in response to dynamic transformations of graphical objects. We report on the overall architecture and …
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