Patent ID: 6882345

Claim:
A system for more efficiently loading a plurality of primitives for a scene into a plurality processors of a computer graphics system, each of the plurality of primitives having a top and a bottom, the plurality of primitives being ordered based on the top of each of the plurality of primitives, the system comprising: a merge circuit for receiving data relating to each of the plurality of primitives adding the data for a primitive having a top that is not lower than a current line; a distributor, for eliminating an expired primitive, the expired primitive having a bottom that is above the current line and for outputting at least a portion of the data for a remaining portion of the plurality of primitives after the expired primitive has been removed, the at least a portion of the data output by the distributor controlling loading of the plurality of primitives by the plurality of processors; a feedback circuit, coupled to the merge circuit and the distributor, for re-inputting to the merge circuit the data for the remaining portion of the plurality of primitives; and a controller for controlling the feedback circuit, the distributor and the merge circuit; wherein information for the remaining portion of the plurality of primitives are provided from the distributor for loading to the plurality of processors.