Important elements of games, movies, and other computer-generated content, shadows are
crucial for enhancing realism and providing important visual cues. In recent years, there …

Adaptive transparency is a new solution to order-independent transparency that closely
approximates the ground-truth results obtained with A-buffer compositing but, like a Z-buffer …

Connectivity in mobile wireless ad-hoc networks is maintained by setting the transmission
range so that a node can establish a link to any other node in the network either directly or …

In the past few years, advances in graphics hardware have fuelled an explosion of research
and development in the field of interactive and real‐time rendering in screen space …

This work introduces S-buffer, an efficient and memory-friendly gpu-accelerated A-buffer
architecture for multifragment rendering. Memory is organized into variable contiguous …

Many applications require operations on multiple fragments that result from ray casting at the
same pixel location. To this end, several approaches have been introduced that process for …

Depth-sorted fragment determination is fundamental for a host of image-based techniques
which simulates complex rendering effects. It is also a challenging task in terms of time and …

We present a novel approach for real-time rendering of static 3D models front-to-back or
back-to-front relative to any viewpoint outside its bounding volume. The approach renders …

Rendering multifragment effects using graphics processing units (GPUs) is attractive for high
speed. However, the efficiency is seriously compromised, because ordering fragments on …

The over operator is commonly used for α-blending in various visualization techniques. In
the current form, it is a binary operator and must strictly follow a specific composition order of …