GPU Pro 4

Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

Web Materials xv

I Geometry Manipulation 1

Wolfgang Engel

1 GPU Terrain Subdivision and Tessellation 3

Benjamin Mistal

1.1 Introduction............................. 3

1.2 TheAlgorithm ........................... 4

1.3 Results................................ 17

1.4 Conclusions............................. 18

Bibliography ............................... 20

2 Introducing the Programmable Vertex Pulling Rendering Pipeline 21

Christophe Riccio and Sean Lilley

2.1 Introduction............................. 21

2.2 Draw Submission Limitations and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.3 Evaluating Draw Call CPU Overhead and the GPU Draw

Submission ...