Foreword
Now is an excellent time to be working in the field of computer graphics. Over the past five years, GPU technology has advanced in astounding ways, and at an explosive pace. The rendering rate, as measured in pixels per second, has been approximately doubling every six months during those five years. A factor of two is certainly exciting enough, but more exciting is the wonder of compounding. Five years represents the doubling of performance ten times—that’s two to the tenth power, a factor of one thousand!
Not only has performance increased, but also the quality of computation and the flexibility of graphics programming have steadily improved during that same time. Five years ago, PCs and computer workstations had graphics accelerators, ...
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