Per-vertex Computations

Per-vertex Hardware Acceleration



• Hardware Transformation & Lighting (T&L)
  • Per-vertex evaluation of a local lighting model
• Hardware texture coordinate generation
  • Computes input coordinates for per-pixel texture mapping hardware
• New capabilities: vertex weighting, a.k.a. “skinning”
• Pipelined T&L hardware faster, cheaper than CPU

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