[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/AGPU paper.txt

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/04/08 06:39:27

Modified files:
        AGPU           : paper.txt 

Log message:
        reorg

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt.diff?tr1=1.5&tr2=1.6&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt
diff -u manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt:1.5 manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt:1.6
--- manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt:1.5      Tue Apr  8 06:36:02 2003
+++ manuscripts/AGPU/paper.txt  Tue Apr  8 06:39:27 2003
@@ -4,27 +4,29 @@
 should be recognizable by users. 
 The procedurally generated unique textures are used as a
 backgrounds to documents for visualization of document identity. 
-
-The perceptually designed
-algorithm runs, after the random seeding and setup stages,
-entirely on the fragment pipeline of the GPU.
-
-We present a perceptually designed hardware-accelerated algorithm for
-generating unique background textures for distinguishing documents.
 In our approach, each document has
-a different, easily distinguishable background texture.  The user can
+a different, easily distinguishable background texture.  
+The user can
 thus identify an item at a glance, even if only a *fragment* of the
 item is shown, without reading the title (which the fragment may not
-even show).  The user should be able to learn the textures of the most
+even show).  
+The user should be able to learn the textures of the most
 often visited documents, as per Zipf's law.
 See figxupdfdiag.
-
 An initial experiment has shown that the generated textures are indeed
 recognizable.
 
-One major goal for the implementation is to support complicated
-mappings between paper and screen coordinates, such as fisheye
-distortion.  To make this simple, all processing when rendering the
+The perceptually designed
+algorithm runs, after the random seeding and setup stages,
+entirely on the fragment pipeline of the GPU, in order
+to allow
+complicated
+mappings 
+such as fisheye
+distortion
+between paper and screen coordinates.  
+
+To make this simple, all processing when rendering the
 background texture must be done on the fragment level after the
 texture accesses, i.e., we cannot use procedural geometry.