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Scanline rendering

Scanline rendering (also scan line rendering and scan-line rendering) is an algorithm for visible surface determination, in 3D computer graphics, that works on a row-by-row basis rather than a polygon-by-polygon or pixel-by-pixel basis. All of the polygons to be rendered are first sorted by the top y coordinate at which they first appear, then each row…

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Ivan SutherlandUniversity of UtahEvans & SutherlandSalt Lake City
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Use in realtime rendering

FramebufferNintendo DSSprite hardwareBSPPainter's
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Tiled renderingPowerVRDreamcast
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Z-bufferingDeferred shading
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Scanline rendering

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples25
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
Components1

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Scanline rendering

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related to history · 15
Scanline rendering → Bouknight, Erdahl, Evans, Ivan Sutherland's, Much, Newell, Other, Romney, Salt Lake City, Sancha, Sutherland, The, University, Utah, Wylie
related to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithm · 6
Scanline rendering → GPUs, In, The, Z-buffer, Z-buffering, Z-reject
related to Similar techniques · 4
Scanline rendering → PowerVR, Primitives, Some, The Dreamcast

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scanline rendering z-buffer graphics active edges visible scan line main vertices one hardware memory techniques algorithm time sorted sorting need

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Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmThe0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmZ-buffering0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmIn0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmZ-buffer0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmZ-reject0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to Comparison with Z-buffer algorithmGPUs0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyThe0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyWylie0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyRomney0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyEvans0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyErdahl0.60section
Scanline renderingrelated to historyOther0.60section

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