Fast Scene Generation on

Fast Scene Generation on General Purpose Raster Systems • Henry Fuchs Gregory D. Abram Eric D. Grant University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image generation of scenes with over a thousand polygons can be generated on a general purpose raster system rapidly enough for interactive use. We report new results from an algorithm first reported in [Fuchs 1980], which achieves this level of performance for a large class of applications in which the world model changes much less frequently than the viewing position. Since this algorithm is particularly simple to implement, it appears to be an attractive alternative {for its class of applications) to the common Z buffer visible-surface algorithm.