recommended
Thomas Porter and Tom Duff. 1984. Compositing digital images. In Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '84), Hank Christiansen (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 253-259. (ncsu)
Haines, E. Videos 7 (Interactivity) to 8 (FPS and refresh), 50 (Frame skipping) to 55 (FPS vs milliseconds), 154 (Intro to transparency) to 169 (Conclusion) and 386 (Trans mapping) to 390 (Unmultiplying) of Udacity's Interactive 3D Graphics course.
Marshner & Shirley. (2016). Chapter 3.1-3.2, Raster images & Chapter 17.4, Graphics hardware buffers. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters. (ncsu)
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Paul Heckbert. 1982. Color image quantization for frame buffer display. In Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '82). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 297-307. (ncsu)
Paul Haeberli and Kurt Akeley. 1990. The accumulation buffer: hardware support for high-quality rendering. In Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '90). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 309-318. (ncsu)
Smith, A. R. (1982). Special Effects for Star Trek II: The Genesis Demo, Instant Evolution with Computer Graphics. American Cinematographer, 63(10), 1038-1039. (ncsu)
random displays: asteroids, pen plotter 1, pen plotter 2, ekg, sketchpad, tennis for two
raster displays: asteroids, laser writer, dot matrix, lode runner, oregon trail
display types: history LCDs, LCD schematics
transparency
jellyfish by alexander radek
webgl lesson 8
threejs example
wayne brown transparency order
delphic webgl transparency
haines
frame rate
haines' fps demo