Summed-area tables for texture mapping

1 January 1984

proceedings article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Vol. 18 (3) , 207-212
https://doi.org/10.1145/800031.808600

Abstract

Texture-map computations can be made tractable through use of precalculated tables which allow computational costs independent of the texture density. The first example of this technique, the “mip” map, uses a set of tables containing successively lower-resolution representations filtered down from the discrete texture function. An alternative method using a single table of values representing the integral over the texture function rather than the function itself may yield superior results at similar cost. The necessary algorithms to support the new technique are explained. Finally, the cost and performance of the new technique is compared to previous techniques.

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