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GL_SGIX_framezoom



Name


    SGIX_framezoom

Name Strings


    GL_SGIX_framezoom

Version


    $Date: 1996/03/08 18:16:44 $ $Revision: 1.4 $

Number


    57

Dependencies


    none.

Overview


    This extension provides a additional way to rasterize geometric
primitives and pixel rectangles. The techique is to reduce the
number of pixels rasterized and (possibly) the number of depth and
stencil operations performed per primitive. Each pixel is zoomed
up and used to render an N x N block of screen pixels. The
implementation is free to choose the number of stencil and z pixels
that will correspond to each N x N block.

This extension provides an opportunity to the implementation to
perform expensive raster operations at a reduced resolution,
increasing performance. Such operations may include
texture-mapping, depth & stencil tests, etc. The hardware should
be allowed to perform operations that it accelerates at full
hardware speed.

The visual result will be the same as if a scene were rendered into
a small window, and then that buffer was copied and zoomed up into
a large window.

All OpenGL parameters that effect rasterization size will implicitly
be multipled by N (this includes point size, line width, etc).

Issues


    * What happens with zoomed (polygon/line) stippled pattern?


New Procedures and Functions


    void FrameZoomSGIX(GLint factor);

New Tokens


    Accepted by the <cap> parameter of Enable, Disable, and IsEnabled, and
by the <pname> parameter of GetBooleanv, GetIntegerv, GetFloatv, and
GetDoublev:

FRAMEZOOM_SGIX

Accepted by the <pname> parameter of GetBooleanv, GetDoublev,
GetIntegerv, and GetFloatv:

FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX
MAX_FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX

Additions to Chapter 2 of the 1.0 Specification (OpenGL Operation)


    None

Additions to Chapter 3 of the 1.0 Specification (Rasterization)


    If FRAMEZOOM_SGIX is off, the rasterization algorithm is unchanged.

If FRAMEZOOM_SGIX is on, the rasterization of geometric primitives
is modified as follows:

Rasterization is performed as if the viewport has shrunk down by
factor of FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX. The viewport itself will not
change. Then, at an undefined stage after primitive rasterization,
the resulting fragments will be zoomed up by the same factor. That
stage is underfined since some of the later rasterization stages
(ie. blending, dithering, z buffering, etc.) may be implemented in
hardware, and hence have to be performed after the zoom. This
flexibility is present to allow the implementation to take maximum
advantage of the hardware.

The zoom process will produce N x N fragments (where N is
FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX) that differ in their x and y coordinates,
are organized in a square, and try to approximate the features of
the original rasterization (with subsampling disabled). The center
of the subsampled fragment is guaranteed to fall somewhere inside
the resulting rectangle of fragments. No additional guarantees are
made concerning the position of the resulting fragments, except
that the position of the subsampled fragment will be consistent
across pixels during the primitive rasterization.

Since rasterization is performed as if the viewport has shrunk by a
factor of FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX, all parameters that alter fragment
generation in screen coordinates (ie. point size, line width, line
stippled, polygon stipple) will look like they now affect a larger
area (by FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX) in the screen. Ie. points and
lines will render roughly as many pixels as if point size and line
width were multiplied by FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX, and glDrawPixels
will operate as if the pixel zoom specified was multiplied by
FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX.

A change in the value of FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX, or a change in the
state of FRAMEZOOM_SGIX, has the same semantics to the ancillary
stencil and z buffers as a resize. Basically, the contents of
these buffers will be undefined till the next clear of that
ancillary buffer.

Any specified value of FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX will be clampled to
the device dependent value of MAX_FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX. The value
of MAX_FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX may not be constant and may vary
during the execution of a GL program. For example, a certain
implementation may not support subsampled rendering when rendering
in the front color buffer. In that case, MAX_FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX
will be 1 when glDrawBuffer specifies a front buffer, or when the
visual on the window is single buffered. In that case, the value
of FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX will be clamped to 1, ie. no subsampling
performed.


Additions to Chapter 4 of the 1.0 Specification (Per-Fragment Operations and the Frame Buffer)


    None (?)

Additions to Chapter 5 of the 1.0 Specification (Special Functions)


    None

Additions to Chapter 6 of the 1.0 Specification (State and State Requests)


    One more state variable, FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX is defined by this
extension.

Additions to the GLX Specification


    None.

GLX Protocol


    ???

Errors


    INVALID_VALUE is generated if the combination of parameters passed
to FrameZoomSGIX are not supported.

New State


    Get Value			Get Command	Type	Initial Value	Attribute
--------- ----------- ---- ------------- ---------
FRAMEZOOM_SGIX IsEnabled B FALSE ??

New Implementation Dependent State


    Get Value			Get Command	Type	Minimum Value
--------- ----------- ---- -------------
FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX GetIntegerv Z+ 1
MAX_FRAMEZOOM_FACTOR_SGIX GetIntegerv Z+ 1

Implementation Support


   List of OpenGL implementations supporting the GL_SGIX_framezoom extension

Original File


   Original text file for the GL_SGIX_framezoom extension


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