generation of a intrapolierten characteristic value to display.

摘要

Method and apparatus are disclosed for providing interpolated display characteristic values, such as intensity or Z value, for pels within a polygon to be displayed by a computer graphics display system. A scanning sequence generates pel addresses such that each pel address so generated is contiguous with a previously generated pel address. The parametric value rate of change in both the X and the Y direction is determined, and expressed as an integer value and a remainder quantity. The remainder quantity is used to determine a sequence, driven by pel address changes, by which the integer parametric value increment from pel to pel is incremented or decremented by one in a regular sequence that assures that the error in the computed parametric value for each pel never exceeds 0.5 parametric value units.