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New Zealand Opera is the face of professional opera in Aotearoa. Our goal: to bring human stories, glorious music and the passion of opera to all. We produce three main stage productions annually which are performed in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. We have three offices, also located in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. In addition the company runs a Technical Centre in Onehunga, Auckland where new productions are created and rehearsals take place. It also houses many costumes and sets from previous productions along with wardrobe and set building workshops.
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- 2014: La traviata, La boheme, Don Giovanni
- 2013: Madame Butterfly, Don Giovanni, The Flying Dutchman
- 2012: Hohepa, Rigoletto, The Bartered Bride
- 2011: Xerxes, Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci
- 2010: The Marriage of Figaro, Macbeth
- 2009: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Eugene Onegin
- 2008: La Bohéme, Hansel and Gretel, Jenufa
- 2007: Lucia di Lammermoor, Turandot
- 2006: The Magic Flute, Don Pasquale, Faust
- 2005: Don Giovanni, La Traviata
- 2004: The Elixir of Love, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Carmen
- 2003: Boris Godunov, The Barber of Seville, Acis and Galatea, Tosca
- 2002: The Marriage of Figaro, The Pearl Fishers
- 2001: Manon, Viva Verdi, Falstaff
- 2000: Madama Butterfly, Aida, Die Fledermaus
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The number of Canadians identifying as Jewish fell by about 10 percent between 2001 and 2006. Lots of numbers from the Canadian Jewish News: Down nationally 33,000 Jews from 348,000, with the steepest decline, about 14 percent, occurring in Quebec.
In Quebec, the total was 71,380, down from 82,450 in 2001. Just over 38,000 offered Jewish as their sole ethnic origin. In Montreal alone, the figure is 68,485 (down precipitously from 80,390). The numbers are worrisome to a community that has been on the decline for at least 30 years and still speaks of itself as being 90,000 strong.
Canadian Jewish community demographer Charles Shahar is at a loss to explain the figures. âItâs difficult to interpret. My initial reaction is surprise⦠Itâs very strange, shocking, really,â he said.
The reporter seems to be shocked, too. She spends much of the rest of the story quoting "baffled" experts and positing possible explanations: "statistical aberration," declining birth, leveling immigration and, most comically, increase in Canadian-dominant identification.
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HOOPER James married Flora GILLIES 1881
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James HOOPER and Flora GILLIES
were married in Victoria in 1881.
James died 1914 in Devenish, Victoria, aged 65 years.
Parents named as James HOOPER and Mary BROOM.
Flora died 1928 in Benella, Victoria, aged 68 years.
Parents named as Donald HOOPER (sic) and Mary CAMERON.
Six children located Victorian records for James and Flora.
Albert Henry HOOPER.
Born: 1881 Devenish, Victoria.
Died: 1969 Shepparton, Victoria, aged 88 years.
Married: Sarah Ann WALLACE.
Year: 1904.
Place: Victoria.
James Edward HOOPER.
Born: 1882 Devenish, Victoria.
Died: 1967 Benalla, Victoria, aged 84 years.
Married: Mary Eliza FORD.
Year: 1908.
Place: Victoria.
Mary Jane HOOPER.
Born: 1885 Devenish, Victoria.
Died: 1938 Warwick, Victoria, aged 51 years.
Married: Walker LIGHTON.
Year: 1911.
Place: Victoria.
Lachlan HOOPER.
Born: 1889 Devenish, Victoria.
Died: 1896 Devenish, aged 7 years.
Elizabeth Albertha HOOPER.
Born: 1893 Devenish, Victoria.
Died: 1975 Morwell, Victoria, aged 82 years.
Married: Andrew John Phillip SPRIGGS.
Year: 1915.
Place: Victoria.
Flora Evelyn HOOPER.
Born: 1899 Devenish, Victoria.
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Married: Albert Victor MOON.
Year: 1926.
Place: Victoria.
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.
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Alex and Simon's home is in the final stages of the renovation, and they plan a party to show it off when it's finished and invite all the other Housewives. Bethenny gets set up on a blind date, and is nervous until she sees a photo of him and learns he's a model. Ramona is busy getting procedures done at her plastic surgeon's office and is amazed at all the new technologies that keep her from going under the knife. LuAnn and her husband get the opportunity to ring the NASDAQ bell together. On the night of Alex and Simon's party, old grievances threaten to mar the new renovation.


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Boo Josh Hamilton or cheer Josh Hamilton when the Los Angeles Angels come to Arlington Friday? Thats a question a lot of people want to know the answer to. But theres another option out there too. Its the Silence for Josh campaign, who sprang to life in the wake of Hamiltons spring training comments that Dallas wasnt a baseball town. Apparently its a pretty big movement too. Theres a Silence for Josh Twitter account (@silence4Josh) that has more than 2,600 followers. Theres a Facebook page with around 8,000 likes. And theres also a Web site that has an official store for all your Silence for Josh needs. The biggest seller on the site? A t-shirt that says "Baseball Town Since 1972", which is a reference to Hamiltons comments. Of course the Rangers dont play their games in Dallas, but thats just a minor detail. Nearly 1,500 of the shirts have been sold. "We started the Twitter site the day after Josh made the comments," said Arlington resident Brad Holmes, who started the site alo...
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As the College celebrated 150 years, it was a moment to reflect upon and celebrate all that has been accomplished since 1861—during times of prosperity and challenge. During 2012, the momentum builds with new these additions to campus, which will help position the College for the next 50 years.
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Pepsi MAX Unveils Fan-Selected MLB Field of Dreams American and National League Teams and the Two Consumers Who Will Play a Baseball Game With the All-Star Roster of Baseball Legends14:39 EDT Tuesday, July 10, 2012Hall of Famers Cal Ripken, Jr. and Mike Schmidt, and Celebrity Baseball Fan Jay Mohr at MLB All-Star Game in Kansas City to Announce TeamsKANSAS CITY, Mo., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Stars take the field tonight on FOX, Pepsi MAX is announcing an All-Star roster of its own - the fan-selected Pepsi MAX MLB Field of Dreams American League (AL) and National League (NL) teams comprised of some of baseball's greatest legends. Baseball fans across the country voted for their favorite MLB legends on the Pepsi MAX MLB Field of Dreams AL and NL ballots earlier this year at MLB.com/PepsiMAX to determine the rosters. From the ballots cast, two lucky consumers ? 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aish is not a bad movie.its a very bad movie, Abhay is good but sonam is yak she doing every thing in movie excluding ACTING. sonam was playing GHAR GHAR in her child hood, and now she playing Acting Acting.. and his father Mr. Anil also support her stupidity.. wao.. Sonam take some lesson...
not a bad movie. i will not say its awesome or somethink like that. but i think its ok ok.. i'll give it a average.. but i really don't think it was a tym waste as every body is saying . movie basically shows the modern lifestyle of of new generation. it was a good one i think specially for youngsters .. :)
its a total boring muvee.........dont waste tym seein it........buh sonam nd abhay acted very well........derz no story at all........its ol abt fashion nd galz livin style........hate da movie so much.......i dont understand da user's rating at ol......how cud u ppl say dat dis movie is a hit
I agree with most of the comments already posted. The movie was a complete waste of time! It might do better as an afternoon tv soap.
BAKWAAAS MOVIE..it just SUCKS!!!! these kinda movies does not suite abhay deol at all!!!


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|Velvi / Penance
|Sri Paranjothi Institute
Global Peace Award conferred to Guru Mahaan
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United Nations) Malaysia.
Gurumahaan undergoes 21 days penance every
year for the welfare of this universe.The 25th
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|Sri Paranjothi Institute for Yoga, Naturopathy and Holistic health was established in 2003 at Thirumurthi Hills.
The word 'Guru' is derived from the Sanskrit language and has a deep spiritual meaning.Its two syllables Gu and Ru stand for the following: Gu denotes the spiritual ignorance that most of mankind is in. Ru represents the radiance of spiritual knowledge that dispels the spiritual ignorance.
The Guru is the One who dispels the darkness of spiritual ignorance in human and bestows upon them spiritual experiences and spiritual knowledge (JNANA). The meaning of guru is more than the literal meaning in any other dictionaries. Guru is a sacred conduit for wisdom and guidance. Having a teacher to guide us in any field is invaluable. Yes, this is true in Spirituality as well.


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Other trials, to begin in the fall, will study a monovalent vaccine that has a gene only from the Zaire strain.
monovalent mon·o·va·lent (mŏn'ə-vā'lənt)
Able to form only one covalent or ionic bond.
Having a valence of one; univalent.
Of or relating to an antiserum containing an antibody or antibodies specific for one antigen.
Containing antigens from a single strain of a microorganism.
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Loyalty that is earned has a number of elements to it, including:
- Having a shared cause or interests that are aligned;
- Doing what you say you are going to do when you say you are going to do it;
- Showing up regularly;
- Being able to forgive when someone makes a mistake;
- But, also being willing to punish someone when an error is made;
- Admitting when you are wrong and then apologising; and
- Always acting in the best interests of the people whose loyalty you are trying to earn.
There may be more elements but how many do you have in your business?
We cannot force a customer to be loyal to us. But, if we would like to earn rather than buy their loyalty, we, first, we have to become the person or the business that people would want to be loyal to.


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Airbus bases its calculations on what it anticipates the mature 787-9 - those being delivered from about 2016 onwards - to be, he says.
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Harris Poll Shows Customer Feelings On Labeling
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The NPD Group Signs Market Information Agreement With Nielsen
Exclusive school and office supplies market information agreement will offer the industry's most complete information for total market view. The NPD Group Inc., a global information company, has signed a market information services agreement with Nielsen, a global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, for school and office supplies retail
IDDBA President Passes Away
"Carol has built an effective, committed team and our operations have grown and improved every year thanks to her inspiring, innovative leadership," says IDDBA senior vice president. Carol Christison, longtime International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) president died March 4, 2014. Christison replaced retiring International Cheese & Deli Association Executive Director, Willard Reese in December of 1982
Report Reveals 2014 Grocery Trends
Five years from now, the U.S. grocery landscape is set to look markedly different. Planet Retail has released a report titled "U.S. Grocery Retailing 014: Top trends shaping tomorrow's landscape," analyzing five big trends reshaping the grocery landscape "Change is the only constant. An old saying indeed, but one that aptly captures the direction U.S.
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That might be a valid argument if you ignore the fact that 95% of transactions go through without any problems. With MTM tailoring you're always going to get some issues. There is a lot of scope for human error to creep in. Orders not being processed properly, tailors making mistakes and of course being given wrong measurements to start with.
However, I get far more emails every week from customers thanking me for their great fitting suit than I do from customers with problems and when you consider only a minority of satisfied customers will email you to say thanks as opposed to every customer that has an issue will email you it's a good indication that we're doing things right. It's the same with forums, people will rush to the keyboard if they have a problem with their suit but rarely will you see someone post something like "have a look at my great fitting suit".
Take the Indochino thread here for instance. Hundreds of pages of, in many cases, not very good fitting suits. Yet Indochino sell thousands of suits every month yet we only get to see say ten of them and mostly they have been posted because there are issues with the fit. Do you think Indochino would have survived if they couldn't make a decent suit much less grown into the behemoth that they are now? We rely on repeat business to continue to grow. Would customers come back for more suits if their first one wasn't satisfactory?
What's the alternative? Buying off the rack? Unless you're extremely lucky your OTR suit is going to need alteration. Yet the pictures we see in all the MTM threads here are almost always as the suit was delivered. If it's your first MTM suit there is a fair chance it will need some tweaking after it arrives. Bring in the jacket waist and hips a touch, a centimetre off the sleeve or jacket length. Once you have that done to the first suit you then have a template for the second. Tweak the measurements again for the third and so on until you get to the point where you can simply send in a fabric code and say make it the same as the last one.
If you want an OTR fitting you can have one. We will send you a size 42 jacket and 40 pants (for example) in a hand made fully canvassed jacket and made from some fairly decent wool for only $399. You will look long and hard to find anything of similar quality in a store at all much less for that price. For only $999 we will send you a completely hand tailored suit made from top quality English fabric such as Holland & Sherry in a standard off the rack size. Good luck finding that in a store.
Store bought suits are almost always a cheap factory made fused (or if you're very lucky half) canvas suits slapped together by machines and made from the cheapest wool they can find. No matter what you do to a crap suit it will always remain a crap suit. A well made full canvas suit made from good wool, even if you have to have it altered, will look better and wear longer and prove to be far better value over the long term than any cheap factory made fused suit


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(June 8, 2010) - Samantha Willard, HCC office associate and Testing Center support technician in Hagerstown Community College's Continuing Education and Community Services Division, was recently awarded designation as a certified eMarketing professional (CeP) by the Learning Resources Network (LERN).
"We are delighted to have Samantha Willard as a CeP," says William A. Draves, LERN president. "By not only taking the course but passing the exam and reporting on several eMarketing projects, Samantha has demonstrated great competence and is helping to establish benchmarks and standards in the eMarketing field."
In recognition of her accomplishment, Willard received a gold medallion, pin, and certificate, and will also be recognized at LERN's upcoming annual conference in Nov.
LERN is an international association of lifelong learning programming that offers information and resources to providers of lifelong learning programs. For more information about LERN, go to www.lern.org.
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HCC employee Samantha Willard displays her LERN medallion.


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Nowadays, there seems to be a vending machine for everything (including pizza), and now, in Japan, a burger vending machine exists. The vending machine is open 24 hours daily and will serve you a prepackaged burger all in one stop.
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Can't wait!! It looks awesome, a perfect snack.
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- Published: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003], c1986.
- Year Published: 1986
- Edition: Superbit DVD ed.; Widescreen version.
- Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Language: English
- Format: DVD
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- Henson, Jim.
- Bowie, David.
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- Finland, Natalie.
- Weiser, Shari.
- Mills, Rob.
- Barclay, David Alan.
- Thomson, Alex, 1929-
- Grover, John.
- Jones, Trevor, 1949-
- Flyte, Ellis.
- Froud, Brian.
- Scott, Elliott.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm, Natalie Finland, Shari Weiser, Rob Mills, David Alan Barclay.
Teenage Sarah is babysitting her little brother, when she wishes that goblins would take him away. She gets her wish, and to get him back, she must find her way through the labyrinth to the castle in the center, facing the challenges along the way.
DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital, DTS, Region 1 encoding, widescreen.
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I love this movie. I saw it when I was a kid, and it has always stayed with me. Sarah's journey is totally engrossing, and the special effects with the puppets are excellent. I think the old puppetry effects hold up better over time than a lot of CGI.
It's cute enough, I guess. Definitely 80's. I watched it once because it was recommended as a childhood favorite of a friend, but I don't think I'll need to watch it again. The ending wasn't bad until it broke into a party.
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How has no one reviewed this yet? This is one of the best fantasy movies of the 80s. It's weird, and creepy, and magical. There's great music from none other than David Bowie, and terrific fantastical muppets from the Jim Henson camp.
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Movies, miniseries dwindling in number
While that has given miniseries producers in particular close to a 50/50 chance of landing a nomination due to the sheer lack of qualifying programs, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors made a bold decision this year that has further limited the likely nominees -- not necessarily a move that would aid the ailing genre.
In an effort to prevent what the Television Academy saw as "sneaking into" the miniseries category, the governing body chose to exclude programs that are deemed "limited-run" series from the miniseries category. Previously, producers with limited-run series had a gray area that allowed series like Showtime's "Sleeper Cell" to enter as a miniseries, thus giving it a better shot at an Emmy.
As a result, Showtime's entertainment president Robert Greenblatt, among others, is calling the new rule "the most cockamamie thing I've ever heard." Greenblatt is upset that his multiparter "Sleeper Cell: American Terror," which qualified and received a nomination in 2006 under the miniseries banner, has now been relegated to the 800-pound gorilla known as the outstanding drama series category after being retagged as a limited-run series.
"The (Television Academy) just decided to make this change unilaterally through its producers committee, and I never heard a word about it until it was done," Greenblatt charges. "They decided for some reason to make the drama series category even bigger and the miniseries smaller. I mean, it's hard to come up with miniseries nominations as it is -- and yet they decide to place even greater restrictions on it."
The Television Academy's senior vp awards John Leverence explains that the organization wasn't looking to punish "Sleeper Cell" or any other program but simply to find an objective means of distinguishing between a longform miniseries and a limited-run drama series.
"It was a gray area that clearly needed a definitive qualifier," Leverence says. "In our research, we found that the (Writers Guild of America) used the 'created by' credit to mark a project as exclusive to a limited-run drama series. We decided that was an effective way to designate a project as such, rather like a DNA marker, and separate it from a conventional longform mini."
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Entering its fourth week of operation, the USAJobs website was offline in late afternoon on Nov. 1 and reported to be experiencing "hardware difficulties."
A bulletin on the federal job search website asked users to try again later.
Office of Personnel Management officials tweeted about the problem around 5 p.m, saying that some users were experiencing "intermittent access problems." OPM said in the Twitter message that engineers were on-site addressing the problems.
The problem is the latest in a long line affecting the 3.0 version of USAJobs that launched on Oct. 11. The system has experienced numerous malfunctions in operation since that time. Thousands of users have reported problems with accessibility, search and data loss on the site.
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Erica was right. I'm on the call and OPM blames USAJOBS 3.0 on the CHCO's -- each of them, all of them, large and small. Because they are ALL to blame, nobody is to blame. However, we should feel comfortable that someone who knows NOTHING about recruitment is now in charge -- Cathy Dillon. She is demonstrating that fact on the call. She may be an expert in OPM investigations but knows NOTHING about this.
OPM is in full on damage control mode. Emergency CHCO meeting yesterday to see how OPM could leverage CHCOs. Didnt work. CHCOs see new Usajobs as DHS pushed adventure, not CHCO venture. OPM tells them to stay on script with Usajobs according to the lies and half-truths in the "White Paper" that was prepared by the White House. News conference today to tell everyone that everything is fine as just as planned.
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A system and method for performing efficient clipping to visible windows. A window clip buffer is established for each window being written directly to the front frame buffer. The window clip buffer is initialized as having the same dimensions as the window itself and each pixel position is initially set to False (not visible.) The visible regions are determined and the buffer updated to True (visible) for those visible regions. As each pixel is being drawn the window clip buffer is tested. The pixel is drawn to the frame buffer only where the window clip buffer pixel is true (visible.) Changes to window positions on the screen causes the visible regions to be updated.
1. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for clipping graphic images in a graphics system having a processor, display device and memory, wherein the graphic images are written to a frame buffer in said memory and displayed in one of a plurality of windows on the display device, said computer program product comprising:
means for allocating a window clipping buffer from said memory;
means for initializing said window clipping buffer to a first value;
means for determining regions of said one window that are obscured by others of said plurality of windows;
means for writing a second value to said window clipping buffer only in areas of said window clipping buffer corresponding to one or more portions of said window that are visible;
means for testing said window clipping buffer before writing graphic image data to said frame buffer and writing said graphic image data only if said buffer indicates a visible region.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein a separate window clipping buffer is allocated for each of said plurality of windows.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for determining visible regions and said menus for writing a second value operate whenever a window on said display device is moved.
4. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for determining visible regions and said means for writing a second value operate whenever a window is created on said display device.
5. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for determining visible regions and said means for writing a second value operate whenever a window on said display device is deleted.
6. The system of claim 2, wherein said means for determining visible regions and said means for writing a second value operate whenever a window on said display device is modified.
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08,121,139, filed Sep. 14, 1993 now U.S. Pat. No. 5485562.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to graphics systems and more particularly to apparatus and methods for increasing the speed at which graphic images can be clipped and drawn to a display window. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for increasing the processing speed of clipping where the resultant image is written directly to the display frame buffer.
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Windowed graphic systems display a number of overlapping windows on a physical display device such as a CRT screen. Each window is updated by one or more applications. Each application writes text or graphic images to its assigned window or windows. Because the windows overlap, portions of a window may not be visible. Writing text or image data to an invisible window portion is wasteful of processing capacity.
Prior art graphic systems implement a clipping buffer to control writing of data to the visible portions of the frame buffer. The clipping buffer is defined to contain the same number of horizontal and vertical positions as the display screen, e.g. 1024�1278. Each clipping buffer position contains a value indicating which, if any, window is visible at that point. The clipping buffer value is tested by each particular window and only those matching the clipping buffer value write to the frame buffer. Window clipping is typically performed by hardware in the graphics pipeline in hardware graphics adapters.
The increased processing capacity of technical workstations, particularly those based on RISC architecture designs, allow high function graphics processing to be performed without special purpose graphics hardware. The system processor can be used to perform graphics functions including transformation, scaling, and rendering. Use of the system processor rather than special purpose graphics hardware poses a problem for window clipping.
Double buffered graphics systems maintain two frame buffer images: one for current display (the front buffer): and one being updated by the applications (the back buffer). The back buffer is periodically copied to the front buffer thereby updating the display. Windowed systems are frequently implemented with a back buffer for each window that is clipped to the visible portion during the copy to the front buffer. The copy is performed as a block transfer operation and clipping can be efficiently performed using block mode operations.
Existing system processor based graphics functions (typically two dimensional graphics) typically write directly to the frame buffer and do not use double buffering. Clipping must be performed for each pixel as it is generated when the pixels are written directly to the frame buffer. This can result in inefficient and poor performance of the graphics system.
A process for efficiently performing window clipping when rendering directly to the front buffer is needed. The technical problem addressed by this invention is the provision of a system and method for efficiently performing window clipping in this situation.
The present invention is directed to providing a system and method for efficiently clipping windows while writing directly to the front frame buffer. The present invention provides a clipping buffer for each window that represents the visible and invisible window regions as binary values. Clipping using the window clipping buffer can be efficiently performed using masking techniques.
The present invention is directed to a method for clipping pixels being drawn into one of a plurality of windows in a computer graphics system having a memory and a processor. The method comprises the steps of: allocating a portion of the memory to be a window clip buffer; testing the others of the plurality of windows to determine a plurality of obscured regions where the other windows obscure the one window; transforming the window clip buffer to indicate visibility or obstruction at each pixel position; for each pixel drawn to the one window performing the following steps: testing a value in the window clip buffer corresponding to the pixel position of the pixel being drawn; drawing the pixel if the test indicates a visible location, and bypassing drawing if the location is not visible.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a system allowing efficient clipping of windows written directly to the front frame buffer.
It is yet another object of the invention to provide a process for managing a clipping window for each system window.
It is still another object of the invention to provide a process for rendering to the front frame buffer without incurring a window clipping penalty.
The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein like reference numbers represent like parts of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer system on which the preferred embodiment of the present invention is implemented.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the processes performed by a graphics system according to the present invention.
FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b) depict a set of windows and the associated window clip buffer according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart depicting the inventive process steps of the present invention.
The present invention is implemented in a computer system such as that shown in FIG. 1. The computer system is preferably an IBM RISC System/6000 computer from the IBM Corp. (IBM and RISC System/6000 are trademarks of the IBM Corp.) though any similar workstation, personal computer or mainframe computer could be employed.
The computer system 100 has a processing unit 102, random access memory 104 and permanent storage 122. In addition, an optional communications adapter 106 enables communication with other computer systems. Input/Output controller 112 controls interaction with the video display 114, the keyboard 116 and pointing device 118. A frame buffer or graphics memory 113 is provided in high function graphics systems to store the pixel data for display on the display device 114. Disk controller 120 controls interaction between the processing unit and the permanent storage 122. The options represented here are typical components used in the preferred embodiment. Other components with similar function could replace those shown, for example, a removable diskette or an optical drive could be used in place of a magnetic drive for permanent storage 122 and the processor 102 could be comprised of a number of processing engines in a multiprocessor or parallel processing architecture.
Graphics processing in the preferred embodiment occurs as a series of functional steps. FIG. 2 illustrates the pertinent steps. The Geometry Pipeline 202 performs transformation of coordinates for a graphics image, culling of hidden objects, clipping to the view volume, lighting calculations and assembly of the primitives for rendering. Rasterization subsystem 204 accepts the primitives and generates pixels to the frame buffer as required by each primitive. The generated pixels are written to the screen 206.
The problem of overlapping windows is shown in FIG. 3(a). Window A 302 overlaps window B 304 obscuring part of window B. An application writing to window B must detect the overlap and write only to the visible area.
The present invention implements a clipping window 305 as shown in FIG. 3(b). Clipping window 305 has the same dimensions as window B. The visible portion of window B contains a binary 1 in all pixel positions 306 while the obscured portion contains binary 0s 308. The use of reversed binary values (0=visible and 1=obscured) or non-binary values is also possible in alternate embodiments. The clipping window for each window is maintained in system memory 104 for ready update and access.
The process steps for the current invention are illustrated in FIG. 4. The Window Manager (not shown) of the graphics system is notified of any changes to the location, size or existence of all windows on the display. The window clip buffer is initialized to FALSE (obscured) whenever a new window is defined 402. The Window Manager analyzes the regions of the display to determine which are visible whenever a window is moved, created or deleted. The pixels within each of the window's visible regions are next marked as true (visible) creating the final clip mask 404. Any action that changes the positions of the windows will cause the window clip buffer to be updated.
The application continues after defining a window and draws pixels to the window 406. As each pixel is drawn the window clip buffer value for that position is tested 408 and the pixel drawn 410 only if the buffer value is TRUE (visible). The binary test can be quickly and efficiently performed providing rapid clipping of the window data. One feature that further improves performance is that only those pixels being rendered get clipped. A window background pixel that is not changed is not clipped, further improving the efficiency of the present invention.
It will be understood from the foregoing description that various modifications and changes may be made in the preferred embodiment of the present invention without departing from its true spirit. It is intended that this description is for purposes of illustration only and should not be construed in a limiting sense. The scope of this invention should be limited only by the language of the following claims.
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