Quote:Original post by gmasterluis
The above mentioned article I found seems very useful, can you guys tell me if it's accurate?

It's accurate, but it may not be quite what you're looking for. That's a treatment of the graphics pipeline as it relates specifically to GPUs. If you're more interested in the underlying theory and algorithms, that information will be less useful to you.

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Quote:...as well as one of Mr. (or maybe Dr.? not sure...) Abrash's earliest (or possibly first) works, Zen of Assembly Language.

A great book, but not closely related to this subject area (though I do vaguely recall a discussion of scanline filling).


[Edited by - Sneftel on January 10, 2006 11:42:41 PM]

no, the Zen of Assembly Language book would just be for myself, to learn assembly... it's always been interesting to me, and I'd like to know more about it (not use the book as a tutorial, but as a reference).

i see how that article gives the information on how it all occurs... its not in-depth, but it does seem accurate enough for my teacher... its a simple english project, not a technology class project. i dont need to go into excruciating detail, just enough so that she knows whats going on behind-the-scenes once my presentation is said and done.

Have you taken a look at citeseer? Should give you give you plenty of real references. Here is the mirror at MIT.

Generally it is a good idea actually attempt to read the papers -- you can use the citation count to help you seperate the important ones from the ones that just have flashy titles. Also, don't be afraid of dates. If you are writing about something as basic as geometry processing than many of the ideas have been around for some time. On this sort of subject modern papers will generally focus on some specific aspect and not the general problem. Of course you can always walk the citation tree and find root sources that way, but I doubt you will need (or want) to go that far.