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Stippling As Fast 3D Technique

Posted by timothy on from the dot-dot-dot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This Stippling effort wins best paper at IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?"

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  1. It's really not that far out by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stippling is just the application of small, uniform polygons (aka "dots") in rendering images. To modern graphics hardware, a dot may as well be a polygon, so we haven't gained much in practical terms.