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Advanced computer graphics applications such as virtual reality, scientific visualization, photorealistic image synthesis etc. have created a demand for graphics performance that surpasses the capabilities of today’s machines. New possibilities of solving this problem with special purpose hardware are becoming available through logic-embedded memories, which integrate arithmetic and logical units on high density DRAMs. As a result of this promising development, we will see the raster graphics system on a single chip — the building block for compositing architectures which are scalable to “unlimited” performance.
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Knittel, G., Schilling, A., Straßer, W. (1996). GRAMMY: High Performance Graphics Using Graphics Memories. In: Chen, M., Townsend, P., Vince, J.A. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computer Graphics and Visualisation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1011-8_3
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