TY - JOUR
AU - Carpenter, Loren
AB - The A-buffer (anti-aliased, area-averaged, accumulation buffer) is a general hidden surface mechanism suited to medium scale virtual memory computers. It resolves visibility among an arbitrary collection of opaque, transparent, and intersecting objects. Using an easy to compute Fourier window (box filter), it increases the effective image resolution many times over the Z-buffer, with a moderate increase in cost. The A-buffer is incorporated into the REYES 3-D rendering system at Lucasfilm and was used successfully in the Genesis Demo sequence in Star Trek II. 
TI - The A -buffer, an antialiased hidden surface method
JF - Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
DO - 10.1145/964965.808585
DA - 1984-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/the-a-buffer-an-antialiased-hidden-surface-method-bliZFjFGsd
SP - 103
EP - 108
VL - 18
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -