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Hardware accelerated rendering of antialiasing using a modified a-buffer algorithm

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SIGGRAPH '97: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 307 - 316

https://doi.org/10.1145/258734.258872

Published: 03 August 1997 Publication History

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August 1997

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Georgia State Univ., Atlanta
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Numerical Design Ltd.
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