{"title":"Resolution independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware","authors":"Charles T. Loop, J. Blinn","doi":"10.1145/1186822.1073303","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a method for resolution independent rendering of paths and bounded regions, defined by quadratic and cubic spline curves, that leverages the parallelism of programmable graphics hardware to achieve high performance. A simple implicit equation for a parametric curve is found in a space that can be thought of as an analog to texture space. The image of a curve's Bézier control points are found in this space and assigned to the control points as texture coordinates. When the triangle(s) corresponding to the Bézier curve control hull are rendered, a pixel shader program evaluates the implicit equation for a pixel's interpolated texture coordinates to determine an inside/outside test for the curve. We extend our technique to handle anti-aliasing of boundaries. We also construct a vector image from mosaics of triangulated Bézier control points and show how to deform such images to create resolution independent texture on three dimensional objects.","PeriodicalId":211118,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"129","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1186822.1073303","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a method for resolution independent rendering of paths and bounded regions, defined by quadratic and cubic spline curves, that leverages the parallelism of programmable graphics hardware to achieve high performance. A simple implicit equation for a parametric curve is found in a space that can be thought of as an analog to texture space. The image of a curve's Bézier control points are found in this space and assigned to the control points as texture coordinates. When the triangle(s) corresponding to the Bézier curve control hull are rendered, a pixel shader program evaluates the implicit equation for a pixel's interpolated texture coordinates to determine an inside/outside test for the curve. We extend our technique to handle anti-aliasing of boundaries. We also construct a vector image from mosaics of triangulated Bézier control points and show how to deform such images to create resolution independent texture on three dimensional objects.