by Bill M. Licea-Kane, John M. Kessenich, Graham Sellers, Dave Shreiner
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Released: March 2013
Note
Most primitive of the primitives... streamlining the rendering pipeline for these primitives mirrors the RISC philosophy (hardware supports few operations but does each one fast; more complex operations must be expressed in terms of these simple ones), which suits the SIMD / data parallelism model of graphics cards well.