Abstract:
A cube map is used for determining the appearance of a surface by means of a precomputed texture image. Embodiments of the present invention are drawn computer systems and methods for rendering a spherical projection as a cube map that mitigates non-uniform pixel density near the edges of the cube map to avoid artifacts and increase rendering performance.
Abstract:
A system for, and method of, increasing a graphics processing capability of a mobile device and a mobile device incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a graphics application programming interface (API) operable to cause a graphics processing resource of the mobile device to render data generated by an application to yield rendered data and (2) a network interface associated with the mobile device and operable to: (2a) transmit at least some of the rendered data via a network link for postprocessing to yield postprocessed data and (2b) receive the postprocessed data for display on the mobile device.