reverse-engineering efforts, 3D driver source code is often
proprietary as well.
-At the BoF, one attendee described how they are implementing
-*transparent* shader algorithms. Most shader hardware provides
-triangle algorithms that asume a solid surface. Using such hardware
-for transparent shaders is a two-pass process which clearly comes with
-an inherent *100%* performance penalty. If, on the other hand, they had
-some input into a new 3D core, one that was designed to be flexible...
+At the BoF, one attendee described how they are implementing *transparent*
+shader algorithms. Most shader hardware provides fixed-function triangle
+algorithms that asume a solid surface. Using such hardware for transparent
+shaders is a two-pass process which clearly comes with an inherent *100%*
+performance penalty. If, on the other hand, they had some input into a
+new 3D core, one that was designed to be flexible...
The level of interest was sufficiently high that Atif is reaching out
to people (including our team) to set up an Open 3D Graphics