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<h2>Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition</h2>
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<dd><font size="4"><b><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="4"><b><a href="about.html">Foreword</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="4"><b><a href="about_author.html">About the Author</a></b></font><br />
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<a href="01-01.html"><b>Part I</b></a>
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<a href="01-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 1—The Best Optimizer Is between Your Ears</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-01.html#Heading2">The Human Element of Code Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="01-01.html#Heading3">Understanding High Performance</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-01.html#Heading4">When Fast Isn’t Fast</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="01-02.html#Heading5">Rules for Building High-Performance Code</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-02.html#Heading6">Know Where You’re Going</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-02.html#Heading7">Make a Big Map</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-02.html#Heading8">Make Lots of Little Maps</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-03.html#Heading9">Know the Territory</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-04.html#Heading10">Know When It Matters</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-04.html#Heading11">Always Consider the Alternatives</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-05.html#Heading12">Know How to Turn On the Juice</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="01-06.html#Heading13">Where We’ve Been, What We’ve Seen</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="01-06.html#Heading14">Where We’re Going</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="02-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 2—A World Apart</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-01.html#Heading2">The Unique Nature of Assembly Language Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-01.html#Heading3">Instructions: The Individual versus the Collective</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="02-01.html#Heading4">Assembly Is Fundamentally Different</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-02.html#Heading5">Transformation Inefficiencies</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-02.html#Heading6">Self-Reliance</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-02.html#Heading7">Knowledge</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="02-03.html#Heading8">The Flexible Mind</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="02-03.html#Heading9">Where to Begin?</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="03-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 3—Assume Nothing</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-01.html#Heading2">Understanding and Using the Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-01.html#Heading3">The Costs of Ignorance</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="03-01.html#Heading4">The Zen Timer</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-03.html#Heading5">The Zen Timer Is a Means, Not an End</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-03.html#Heading6">Starting the Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-03.html#Heading7">Time and the PC</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-04.html#Heading8">Stopping the Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-04.html#Heading9">Reporting Timing Results</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-05.html#Heading10">Notes on the Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-05.html#Heading11">A Sample Use of the Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="03-06.html#Heading12">The Long-Period Zen Timer</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-07.html#Heading13">Stopping the Clock</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-08.html#Heading14">Example Use of the Long-Period Zen Timer</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="03-09.html#Heading15">Using the Zen Timer from C</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-10.html#Heading16">Watch Out for Optimizing Assemblers!</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-10.html#Heading17">Further Reading</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="03-10.html#Heading18">Armed with the Zen Timer, Onward and Upward</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="04-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 4—In the Lair of the Cycle-Eaters</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-01.html#Heading2">How the PC Hardware Devours Code Performance</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-01.html#Heading3">Cycle-Eaters</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="04-01.html#Heading4">The Nature of Cycle-Eaters</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-01.html#Heading5">The 8088’s Ancestral Cycle-Eaters</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="04-01.html#Heading6">The 8-Bit Bus Cycle-Eater</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-02.html#Heading7">The Impact of the 8-Bit Bus Cycle-Eater</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-02.html#Heading8">What to Do about the 8-Bit Bus Cycle-Eater?</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="04-03.html#Heading9">The Prefetch Queue Cycle-Eater</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-04.html#Heading10">Official Execution Times Are Only Part of the Story</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-04.html#Heading11">There Is No Such Beast as a True Instruction Execution Time</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-05.html#Heading12">Approximating Overall Execution Times</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-05.html#Heading13">What to Do about the Prefetch Queue Cycle-Eater?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-06.html#Heading14">Holding Up the 8088</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="04-06.html#Heading15">Dynamic RAM Refresh: The Invisible Hand</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-06.html#Heading16">How DRAM Refresh Works in the PC</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-07.html#Heading17">The Impact of DRAM Refresh</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-07.html#Heading18">What to Do About the DRAM Refresh Cycle-Eater?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-07.html#Heading19">Wait States</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="04-08.html#Heading20">The Display Adapter Cycle-Eater</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-09.html#Heading21">The Impact of the Display Adapter Cycle-Eater</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-10.html#Heading22">What to Do about the Display Adapter Cycle-Eater?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-10.html#Heading23">Cycle-Eaters: A Summary</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="04-10.html#Heading24">What Does It All Mean?</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="05-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 5—Crossing the Border</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="05-01.html#Heading2">Searching Files with Restartable Blocks</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-01.html#Heading3">Searching for Text</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-01.html#Heading4">Avoiding the String Trap</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-02.html#Heading5">Brute-Force Techniques</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="05-02.html#Heading6">Using memchr()</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-02.html#Heading7">Making a Search Restartable</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="05-04.html#Heading8">Interpreting Where the Cycles Go</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-04.html#Heading9">Knowing When Assembly Is Pointless</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="05-05.html#Heading10">Always Look Where Execution Is Going</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="06-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 6—Looking Past Face Value</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="06-01.html#Heading2">How Machine Instructions May Do More Than You Think</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="06-01.html#Heading3">Memory Addressing and Arithmetic</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="06-02.html#Heading4">Math via Memory Addressing</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="06-02.html#Heading5">The Wonders of LEA on the 386</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="06-02.html#Heading6">Multiplication with LEA Using Non-Powers of Two</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="07-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 7—Local Optimization</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="07-01.html#Heading2">Optimizing Halfway between Algorithms and Cycle Counting</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="07-01.html#Heading3">When LOOP Is a Bad Idea</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="07-02.html#Heading4">The Lessons of LOOP and JCXZ</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="07-02.html#Heading5">Avoiding LOOPS of Any Stripe</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="07-02.html#Heading6">Local Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="07-03.html#Heading7">Unrolling Loops</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="07-05.html#Heading9">NOT Flips Bits—Not Flags</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="07-05.html#Heading10">Incrementing with and without Carry</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="08-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 8—Speeding Up C with Assembly Language</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="08-01.html#Heading2">Jumping Languages When You Know It’ll Help</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="08-01.html#Heading3">Billy, Don’t Be a Compiler</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="08-01.html#Heading4">Don’t Call Your Functions on Me, Baby</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="08-02.html#Heading5">Stack Frames Slow So Much</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="08-02.html#Heading8">Taking It to the Limit</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="08-02.html#Heading9">A C-to-Assembly Case Study</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="09-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 9—Hints My Readers Gave Me</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="09-01.html#Heading2">Optimization Odds and Ends from the Field</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-01.html#Heading3">Another Look at LEA</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-01.html#Heading4">The Kennedy Portfolio</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-02.html#Heading5">Speeding Up Multiplication</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-02.html#Heading6">Optimizing Optimized Searching</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-05.html#Heading7">Short Sorts</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-05.html#Heading8">Full 32-Bit Division</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-06.html#Heading9">Sweet Spot Revisited</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-07.html#Heading10">Hard-Core Cycle Counting</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-07.html#Heading11">Hardwired Far Jumps</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="09-07.html#Heading12">Setting 32-Bit Registers: Time versus Space</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="10-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 10—Patient Coding, Faster Code</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="10-01.html#Heading4">The Brute-Force Syndrome</a></b></font>
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<a href="11-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 11—Pushing the 286 and 386</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="11-05.html#Heading13">New Instructions and Features: The 286</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="11-06.html#Heading15">Optimization Rules: The More Things Change...</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="11-06.html#Heading16">Detailed Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="11-07.html#Heading17">POPF and the 286</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="12-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 12—Pushing the 486</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="12-01.html#Heading2">It’s Not Just a Bigger 386</a></b></font>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="12-01.html#Heading4">Rules to Optimize By</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="12-03.html#Heading9">Problems with Byte Registers</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="12-04.html#Heading12">The Story Continues</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="13-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 13—Aiming the 486</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="13-01.html#Heading2">Pipelines and Other Hazards of the High End</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="13-01.html#Heading3">486 Pipeline Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="13-02.html#Heading4">BSWAP: More Useful Than You Might Think</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="13-03.html#Heading5">Pushing and Popping Memory</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="13-03.html#Heading6">Optimal 1-Bit Shifts and Rotates</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="14-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 14—Boyer-Moore String Searching</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="14-02.html#Heading4">The Boyer-Moore Algorithm</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="14-06.html#Heading6">Further Optimization of Boyer-Moore</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="15-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 15—Linked Lists and plain Unintended Challenges</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="15-01.html#Heading2">Unfamiliar Problems with Familiar Data Structures</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="15-02.html#Heading4">Dummies and Sentinels</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="15-03.html#Heading5">Circular Lists</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="15-04.html#Heading6">Hi/Lo in 24 Bytes</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="16-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 16—There Ain’t No Such Thing as the Fastest Code</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="16-03.html#Heading5">Challenges and Hazards</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="16-04.html#Heading6">Blinding Yourself to a Better Approach</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="16-04.html#Heading8">The Astonishment of Right-Brain Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="16-06.html#Heading10">Optimization Level 1: Good Code</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="16-07.html#Heading11">Level 2: A New Perspective</a></b></font>
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<a href="17-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 17—The Game of Life</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-01.html#Heading2">The Triumph of Algorithmic Optimization in a Cellular Automata Game</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="17-01.html#Heading3">Conway’s Game</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-03.html#Heading5">Where Does the Time Go?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-03.html#Heading6">The Hazards and Advantages of Abstraction</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-05.html#Heading7">Heavy-Duty C++ Optimization</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="17-06.html#Heading8">Bringing In the Right Brain</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-06.html#Heading10">Acting on What We Know</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="17-08.html#Heading11">The Challenge That Ate My Life</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="18-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 18—It’s a plain Wonderful Life</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="18-01.html#Heading2">Optimization beyond the Pale</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="18-01.html#Heading3">Breaking the Rules</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="18-02.html#Heading4">Table-Driven Magic</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="18-04.html#Heading5">Keeping Track of Change with a Change List</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="18-05.html#Heading6">A Layperson’s Overview of QLIFE</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="19-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 19—Pentium: Not the Same Old Song</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="19-01.html#Heading2">Learning a Whole Different Set of Optimization Rules</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="19-01.html#Heading3">The Return of Optimization as Art</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="19-02.html#Heading6">Cache Organization</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="19-03.html#Heading7">Faster Addressing and More</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="20-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 20—Pentium Rules</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="20-01.html#Heading3">An Instruction in Every Pipe</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="20-02.html#Heading4">V-Pipe-Capable Instructions</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="20-04.html#Heading6">Superscalar Notes</a></b></font>
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<a href="21-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 21—Unleashing the Pentium’s V-Pipe</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="21-01.html#Heading3">Address Generation Interlocks</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="21-02.html#Heading6">Who’s in First?</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="22-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 22—Zenning and the Flexible Mind</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="22-01.html#Heading3">Zenning</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="23-01.html"><b>Part II</b></a>
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<a href="23-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 23—Bones and Sinew</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="23-01.html#Heading4">An Introduction to VGA Programming</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="23-02.html#Heading5">At the Core</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="23-06.html#Heading10">The Hazards of VGA Clones</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="23-06.html#Heading12">The Macro Assembler</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="24-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 24—Parallel Processing with the VGA</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="24-03.html#Heading4">Notes on the ALU/Latch Demo Program</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="25-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 25—VGA Data Machinery</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-01.html#Heading2">The Barrel Shifter, Bit Mask, and Set/Reset Mechanisms</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-01.html#Heading3">VGA Data Rotation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-01.html#Heading4">The Bit Mask</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="25-03.html#Heading5">The VGA’s Set/Reset Circuitry</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-04.html#Heading6">Setting All Planes to a Single Color</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-05.html#Heading7">Manipulating Planes Individually</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-06.html#Heading8">Notes on Set/Reset</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="25-06.html#Heading9">A Brief Note on Word OUTs</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="26-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 26—VGA Write Mode 3</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="26-01.html#Heading2">The Write Mode That Grows on You</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="26-01.html#Heading3">A Mode Born in Strangeness</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="26-03.html#Heading4">A Note on Preserving Register Bits</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="27-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 27—Yet Another VGA Write Mode</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-01.html#Heading2">Write Mode 2, Chunky Bitmaps,and Text-Graphics Coexistence</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-01.html#Heading4">A Byte’s Progress in Write Mode 2</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-02.html#Heading5">Copying Chunky Bitmaps to VGA Memory Using Write Mode 2</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-03.html#Heading6">Drawing Color-Patterned Lines Using Write Mode 2</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-04.html#Heading7">When to Use Write Mode 2 and When to Use Set/Reset</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-04.html#Heading8">Mode 13H—320x200 with 256 Colors</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="27-04.html#Heading9">Flipping Pages from Text to Graphics and Back</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="28-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 28—Reading VGA Memory</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="28-01.html#Heading2">Read Modes 0 and 1, and the Color Don’t Care Register</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="28-01.html#Heading3">Read Mode 0</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="28-03.html#Heading4">Read Mode 1</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="28-04.html#Heading5">When all Planes “Don’t Care”</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="29-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 29—Saving Screens and Other VGA Mysteries</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-01.html#Heading2">Useful Nuggets from the VGA Zen File</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-01.html#Heading3">Saving and Restoring EGA and VGA Screens</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-03.html#Heading4">16 Colors out of 64</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-05.html#Heading5">Overscan</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-05.html#Heading6">A Bonus Blanker</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="29-06.html#Heading7">Modifying VGA Registers</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="30-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 30—Video Est Omnis Divisa</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-01.html#Heading2">The Joys and Galling Problems of Using Split Screens on the EGA and VGA</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="30-01.html#Heading3">How the Split Screen Works</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-01.html#Heading4">The Split Screen in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-03.html#Heading5">VGA and EGA Split-Screen Operation Don’t Mix</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-03.html#Heading6">Setting the Split-Screen-Related Registers</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-03.html#Heading7">The Problem with the EGA Split Screen</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-04.html#Heading9">The Split Screen and Horizontal Panning: An Example</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-06.html#Heading10">Notes on Setting and Reading Registers</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-07.html#Heading11">Split Screens in Other Modes</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="30-07.html#Heading12">How Safe?</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="31-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 31—Higher 256-Color Resolution on the VGA</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-01.html#Heading2">When Is 320x200 Really 320x400?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-01.html#Heading3">Why 320x200? Only IBM Knows for Sure</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-01.html#Heading5">Display Memory Organization in 320x400 Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-02.html#Heading6">Reading and Writing Pixels</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-04.html#Heading7">Two 256-Color Pages</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="31-05.html#Heading8">Something to Think About</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="32-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 32—Be It Resolved: 360x480</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-01.html#Heading2">Taking 256-Color Modes About as Far as the Standard VGA Can Take Them</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-01.html#Heading3">Extended 256-Color Modes: What’s Not to Like?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-01.html#Heading4">360x480 256-Color Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="32-04.html#Heading5">How 360x480 256-Color Mode Works</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-04.html#Heading6">480 Scan Lines per Screen: A Little Slower, But No Big Deal</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-04.html#Heading7">360 Pixels per Scan Line: No Mean Feat</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="32-05.html#Heading8">Accessing Display Memory in 360x480 256-Color Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="33-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 33—Yogi Bear and Eurythmics Confront VGA Colors</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-01.html#Heading2">The Basics of VGA Color Generation</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="33-01.html#Heading3">VGA Color Basics</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-01.html#Heading4">The Palette RAM</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-01.html#Heading5">The DAC</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-02.html#Heading6">Color Paging with the Color Select Register</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-02.html#Heading7">256-Color Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-02.html#Heading8">Setting the Palette RAM</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-03.html#Heading9">Setting the DAC</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-03.html#Heading10">If You Can’t Call the BIOS, Who Ya Gonna Call?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="33-03.html#Heading11">An Example of Setting the DAC</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="34-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 34—Changing Colors without Writing Pixels</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-01.html#Heading2">Special Effects through Realtime Manipulation of DAC Colors</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-01.html#Heading3">Color Cycling</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="34-01.html#Heading4">The Heart of the Problem</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-02.html#Heading5">Loading the DAC via the BIOS</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-02.html#Heading6">Loading the DAC Directly</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-03.html#Heading7">A Test Program for Color Cycling</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-04.html#Heading8">Color Cycling Approaches that Work</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="34-05.html#Heading9">Odds and Ends</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-05.html#Heading10">The DAC Mask</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-05.html#Heading11">Reading the DAC</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="34-05.html#Heading12">Cycling Down</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="35-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 35—Bresenham Is Fast, and Fast Is Good</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-01.html#Heading2">Implementing and Optimizing Bresenham’s Line-Drawing Algorithm</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-01.html#Heading3">The Task at Hand</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="35-01.html#Heading4">Bresenham’s Line-Drawing Algorithm</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-02.html#Heading5">Strengths and Weaknesses</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="35-03.html#Heading6">An Implementation in C</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-04.html#Heading7">Looking at EVGALine</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-05.html#Heading8">Drawing Each Line</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-05.html#Heading9">Drawing Each Pixel</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-06.html#Heading10">Comments on the C Implementation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="35-06.html#Heading11">Bresenham’s Algorithm in Assembly</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="36-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 36—The Good, the Bad, and the Run-Sliced</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="36-01.html#Heading2">Faster Bresenham Lines with Run-Length Slice Line Drawing</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="36-01.html#Heading3">Run-Length Slice Fundamentals</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="36-02.html#Heading4">Run-Length Slice Implementation</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="37-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 37—Dead Cats and Lightning Lines</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="37-01.html#Heading2">Optimizing Run-Length Slice Line Drawing in a Major Way</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="37-01.html#Heading3">Fast Run-Length Slice Line Drawing</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="37-02.html#Heading4">How Fast Is Fast?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="37-02.html#Heading5">Further Optimizations</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="38-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 38—The Polygon Primeval</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="38-01.html#Heading2">Drawing Polygons Efficiently and Quickly</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="38-02.html#Heading6">Filling Non-Overlapping Convex Polygons</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="39-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 39—Fast Convex Polygons</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="39-03.html#Heading6">The Finishing Touch: Assembly Language</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="39-04.html#Heading8">Faster Edge Tracing</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="40-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 40—Of Songs, Taxes, and the Simplicity of Complex Polygons</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="40-01.html#Heading2">Dealing with Irregular Polygonal Areas</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="40-01.html#Heading3">Filling Arbitrary Polygons</a></b></font>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="40-03.html#Heading5">Complex Polygon Filling: An Implementation</a></b></font>
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<a href="41-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 41—Those Way-Down Polygon Nomenclature Blues</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="41-01.html#Heading2">Names Do Matter when You Conceptualize a Data Structure</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="41-01.html#Heading3">Nomenclature in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="42-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 42—Wu’ed in Haste; Fried, Stewed at Leisure</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="42-01.html#Heading2">Fast Antialiased Lines Using Wu’s Algorithm</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="42-01.html#Heading3">Wu Antialiasing</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="42-02.html#Heading4">Tracing and Intensity in One</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="42-05.html#Heading6">Notes on Wu Antialiasing</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="43-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 43—Bit-Plane Animation</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-01.html#Heading2">A Simple and Extremely Fast Animation Method for Limited Color</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-02.html#Heading4">Stacking the Palette Registers</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-02.html#Heading5">Bit-Plane Animation in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-04.html#Heading6">Limitations of Bit-Plane Animation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-05.html#Heading7">Shearing and Page Flipping</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="43-06.html#Heading8">Beating the Odds in the Jaw-Dropping Contest</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="44-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 44—Split Screens Save the Page Flipped Day</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="44-01.html#Heading3">A Plethora of Challenges</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="44-01.html#Heading4">A Page Flipping Animation Demonstration</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="44-04.html#Heading5">Write Mode 3</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="44-04.html#Heading6">Drawing Text</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="44-06.html#Heading8">Knowing When to Flip</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="44-06.html#Heading9">Enter the Split Screen</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="45-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 45—Dog Hair and Dirty Rectangles</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-01.html#Heading2">Different Angles on Animation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-01.html#Heading3">Plus ça Change</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-01.html#Heading4">VGA Access Times</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="45-02.html#Heading5">Dirty-Rectangle Animation</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-03.html#Heading7">Dirty Rectangles in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-04.html#Heading8">Hi-Res VGA Page Flipping</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="45-06.html#Heading9">Another Interesting Twist on Page Flipping</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="46-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 46—Who Was that Masked Image?</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="46-01.html#Heading2">Optimizing Dirty-Rectangle Animation</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="46-01.html#Heading3">Dirty-Rectangle Animation, Continued</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="46-03.html#Heading6">Dirty-Rectangle Management</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="47-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 47—Mode X: 256-Color VGA Magic</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="47-01.html#Heading2">Introducing the VGA’s Undocumented “Animation-Optimal” Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="47-01.html#Heading3">What Makes Mode X Special?</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="47-02.html#Heading4">Selecting 320x240 256-Color Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="47-04.html#Heading5">Designing from a Mode X Perspective</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="47-06.html#Heading6">Hardware Assist from an Unexpected Quarter</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="48-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 48—Mode X Marks the Latch</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="48-01.html#Heading2">The Internals of Animation’s Best Video Display Mode</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="48-03.html#Heading3">Allocating Memory in Mode X</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="48-03.html#Heading4">Copying Pixel Blocks within Display Memory</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="48-05.html#Heading5">Copying to Display Memory</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="48-05.html#Heading6">Who Was that Masked Image Copier?</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="49-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 49—Mode X 256-Color Animation</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-01.html#Heading2">How to Make the VGA Really Get up and Dance</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="49-01.html#Heading3">Masked Copying</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-02.html#Heading4">Faster Masked Copying</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-03.html#Heading5">Notes on Masked Copying</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-04.html#Heading6">Animation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-04.html#Heading7">Mode X Animation in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="49-05.html#Heading8">Works Fast, Looks Great</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="50-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 50—Adding a Dimension</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-01.html#Heading2">3-D Animation Using Mode X</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-01.html#Heading3">References on 3-D Drawing</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="50-01.html#Heading4">The 3-D Drawing Pipeline</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-02.html#Heading5">Projection</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-02.html#Heading6">Translation</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="50-02.html#Heading8">A Simple 3-D Example</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-07.html#Heading9">Notes on the 3-D Animation Example</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="50-07.html#Heading10">An Ongoing Journey</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="51-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 51—Sneakers in Space</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="51-01.html#Heading2">Using Backface Removal to Eliminate Hidden Surfaces</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="51-01.html#Heading3">One-sided Polygons: Backface Removal</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="51-02.html#Heading4">Backface Removal in Action</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="51-05.html#Heading5">Incremental Transformation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="51-06.html#Heading6">A Note on Rounding Negative Numbers</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="51-06.html#Heading7">Object Representation</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="52-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 52—Fast 3-D Animation: Meet X-Sharp</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="52-01.html#Heading2">The First Iteration of a Generalized 3-D Animation Package</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="52-01.html#Heading3">This Chapter’s Demo Program</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="52-07.html#Heading4">A New Animation Framework: X-Sharp</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="52-07.html#Heading5">Three Keys to Realtime Animation Performance</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="52-08.html#Heading6">Drawbacks</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="52-08.html#Heading7">Where the Time Goes</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="53-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 53—Raw Speed and More</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="53-01.html#Heading2">The Naked Truth About Speed in 3-D Animation</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="53-01.html#Heading3">Raw Speed, Part 1: Assembly Language</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="53-03.html#Heading4">Raw Speed, Part II: Look it Up</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="53-03.html#Heading5">Hidden Surfaces</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="54-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 54—3-D Shading</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="54-01.html#Heading3">Support for Older Processors</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="54-05.html#Heading7">Shading: Implementation Details</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="55-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 55—Color Modeling in 256-Color Mode</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="55-01.html#Heading2">Pondering X-Sharp’s Color Model in an RGB State of Mind</a></b></font>
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<a href="56-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 56—Pooh and the Space Station</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="56-01.html#Heading3">Principles of Quick-and-Dirty Texture Mapping</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="56-01.html#Heading4">Mapping Textures Made Easy</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="56-03.html#Heading5">Fast Texture Mapping: An Implementation</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="57-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 57—10,000 Freshly Sheared Sheep on the Screen</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="57-01.html#Heading2">The Critical Role of Experience in Implementing Fast, Smooth Texture Mapping</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="57-01.html#Heading3">Visual Quality: A Black Hole ... Er, Art</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="57-01.html#Heading4">Fixed-Point Arithmetic, Redux</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="57-02.html#Heading5">Texture Mapping: Orientation Independence</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="57-02.html#Heading6">Mapping Textures across Multiple Polygons</a></b></font>
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<a href="58-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 58—Heinlein’s Crystal Ball, Spock’s Brain, and the 9-Cycle Dare</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="58-01.html#Heading2">Using the Whole-Brain Approach to Accelerate Texture Mapping</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="58-01.html#Heading3">Texture Mapping Redux</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="58-02.html#Heading5">A 90-Degree Shift in Perspective</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="59-01.html#Heading2">What BSP Trees Are and How to Walk Them</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="59-05.html#Heading10">Measure and Learn</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="61-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 61—Frames of Reference</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="61-01.html#Heading2">The Fundamentals of the Math behind 3-D Graphics</a></b></font>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="61-02.html#Heading5">The Dot Product</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="61-02.html#Heading7">Cross Products and the Generation of Polygon Normals</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="62-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 62—One Story, Two Rules, and a BSP Renderer</b></a>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="62-01.html#Heading2">Taking a Compiled BSP Tree from Logical to Visual Reality</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="62-03.html#Heading5">Moving the Viewer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="62-04.html#Heading10">Notes on the BSP Renderer</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="63-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 63—Floating-Point for Real-Time 3-D</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="63-01.html#Heading2">Knowing When to Hurl Conventional Math Wisdom Out the Window</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="63-01.html#Heading3">Not Your Father’s Floating-Point</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="63-01.html#Heading4">Pentium Floating-Point Optimization</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="63-02.html#Heading5">Pipelining, Latency, and Throughput</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="63-02.html#Heading7">The Dot Product</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="63-04.html#Heading12">A Farewell to 3-D Fixed-Point</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="64-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 64—Quake’s Visible-Surface Determination</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-01.html#Heading2">The Challenge of Separating All Things Seen from All Things Unseen</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-01.html#Heading3">VSD: The Toughest 3-D Challenge of All</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-02.html#Heading4">The Structure of Quake Levels</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="64-02.html#Heading5">Culling and Visible Surface Determination</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-02.html#Heading7">Overdraw</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading8">The Beam Tree</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading10">Subdividing Raycast</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading11">Vertex-Free Surfaces</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading12">The Draw-Buffer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading13">Span-Based Drawing</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading14">Portals</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-03.html#Heading15">Breakthrough!</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-04.html#Heading16">Simplify, and Keep on Trying New Things</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="64-04.html#Heading17">Learn Now, Pay Forward</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="65-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 65—3-D Clipping and Other Thoughts</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="65-01.html#Heading2">Determining What’s Inside Your Field of View</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="65-01.html#Heading3">3-D Clipping Basics</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="65-02.html#Heading4">Intersecting a Line Segment with a Plane</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="65-04.html#Heading7">The Lessons of Listing 65.3</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="65-04.html#Heading8">Advantages of Viewspace Clipping</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="66-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 66—Quake’s Hidden-Surface Removal</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-01.html#Heading2">Struggling with Z-Order Solutions to the Hidden Surface Problem</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="66-01.html#Heading3">Creative Flux and Hidden Surfaces</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-01.html#Heading5">Performance Impact</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-01.html#Heading6">Leveling and Improving Performance</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-02.html#Heading7">Sorted Spans</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-02.html#Heading8">Edges versus Spans</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-04.html#Heading11">Quake and Z-Sorting</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="66-04.html#Heading12">Decisions Deferred</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="67-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 67—Sorted Spans in Action</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="67-01.html#Heading2">Implementing Independent Span Sorting for Rendering without Overdraw</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="68-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 68—Quake’s Lighting Model</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="68-01.html#Heading2">A Radically Different Approach to Lighting Polygons</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="68-01.html#Heading3">The Lighting Conundrum</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="69-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 69—Surface Caching and Quake’s Triangle Models</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="69-03.html#Heading9">An Idea that Didn’t Work</a></b></font></dd>
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<a href="70-01.html#Heading1"><b>Chapter 70—Quake: A Post-Mortem and a Glimpse into the Future</b></a>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-01.html#Heading2">Preprocessing the World</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-02.html#Heading3">The Potentially Visible Set (PVS)</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-06.html#Heading12">The Subdivision Rasterizer</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-06.html#Heading13">Sprites</a></b></font></dd>
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<font size="3"><b><a href="70-06.html#Heading15">How We Spent Our Summer Vacation: After Shipping Quake</a></b></font>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-06.html#Heading16">Verite Quake</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-07.html#Heading17">GLQuake</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-07.html#Heading18">WinQuake</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-07.html#Heading19">QuakeWorld</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-08.html#Heading20">Quake 2</a></b></font></dd>
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<dd><font size="3"><b><a href="70-09.html#Heading21">Looking Forward</a></b></font></dd>
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