The SAGE graphics architecture

The Scalable, Advanced Graphics Environment (SAGE) is a new high-end, multi-chip rendering architecture. Each single SAGE board can render in excess of 80 million fully lit, textured, antialiased triangles per second. SAGE brings high quality antialiasing filters to video rate hardware for the first time. To achieve this, the concept of a frame buffer is replaced by a fully double-buffered sample buffer of between 1 and 16 non-uniformly placed samples per final output pixel. The video output raster of samples is subject to convolution by a 5

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: TOG
• Authors: Michael Deering, David Naegle
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, Output Pixel, SAGE Board, TOG 2002