摘要 |
<p>A system method and computer program product are provided programmable processing of fragment data in a computer hardware graphics pipeline (200). Initially, fragment data is received (201) in a hardware graphics pipeline. It is then determined whether the hardware graphics pipeline (200) is operating in a programmable mode (202). If it is determined that the hardware graphics pipeline (200) is operating in the programmable mode (202), programmable operations on the fragment data (204) in order to generate output. The programmable operations (204) are performed in a manner/ sequence specified in a graphics application program interface. If it is determined that the hardware graphics pipeline (200) is not operating in the programmable mode (202), standard graphics application program interface operations are performed on the fragment data in order to generate output (206).</p> |