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 # Efficient Triangle Coverage Tests for Stochastic Rasterization

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 In our previous paper on stochastic rasterization \[Laine et al. 2011\], we stated that a 5D triangle coverage test consumes approximately 25 FMA (fused multiply-add) operations. This technical report details the operation of our coverage test. We also provide variants specialized for defocus-only and motion-only cases.



 ## Authors



[Samuli Laine](/index.php/person/samuli-laine)

[Tero Karras](/index.php/person/tero-karras)

 

 

 ## Publication Date



Thursday, September 1, 2011

 

 ## Published in



[NVIDIA Technical Report NVR-2010-003](http://research.nvidia.com/publication/efficient-triangle-coverage-tests-stochastic-rasterization)

 

 ## Research Area



[Computer Graphics](/index.php/research-area/computer-graphics)

 

 

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