Hardware Enhancements for Raster Graphics

Great strides have been made in the field of fast, realistic image generation in the last 20 years. A generally acknowledged goal of the field called the Ultimate Display has been guiding the field all that time, and may very well be guiding us for the next 20 years. But with the recent advent of VLSI technology the Ultimate Display may finally be less of a dream and more of an achievable goal.

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