Hidden-surface processing device, anti-aliasing method and three-dimensional graphics processing apparatus

摘要

The present invention intends to provide a three-dimensional graphics processing apparatus which can execute hidden-surface processing, smooth shading processing and anti-aliasing processing. The conven­tional hidden-surface processing device can only provide pixel information such as luminance data, and so cannot execute any processing requiring error data at polygon boundaries, such as anti-aliasing processing. The conventional anti-aliasing method must deal with many cases because the processing is made for each pixel, execute complicated calculation if the boundary line extends over several pixels, and may not able to process the display with decimals omitted. The hidden-surface processing device according to the present invention is provided with an error register (15) which can hold error data at polygon boundaries and its output means thereby to provide the error data at the polygon boundaries. The anti-aliasing method according to the present invention can replace the information on two successive pixels at polygon boundaries by its area average on two successive pixels on one scan line and output the replaced information, which is very efficient for real-time processing.