Patent ID: 6937251

Claim:
A system for providing a graphical image of data describing at least one object, the data including a plurality of fragments for the at least one object, the system comprising: a display including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels having a plurality of display elements, each of the plurality of display elements having a color, each of the plurality of pixels having a size, the plurality of fragments intersecting a portion of the plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of fragments including a texture and at least one color; a raster core for ensuring that a texture area corresponds to the size of the pixel for the plurality of fragments and for processing the at least one color for each of the plurality of fragments utilizing one sample of a plurality of samples for each of the plurality of display elements for each of the portions of the plurality of pixels; a fragment generator coupled with the raster core, the fragment generator for taking the plurality of samples of the at least one color for each of the plurality of fragments, the plurality of samples corresponding to the plurality of display elements; and a texture core coupled to the raster core and the fragment generator for processing the texture for each of the plurality of fragments using the texture area.