Integrating the slope and setup calculations for triangles to the rasterizer offloads the host processor from intensive calculations and can significantly increase 3D system performance. The processing on the host is greatly reduced and much less data is passed from the host to the graphics subsystem. A setup architecture handling generalized triangle meshes and computing all necessary parameters for a high-end raster pipeline to generate Gouraud shaded, texture- and bumpmapped triangles is described and its benefits on the final bandwidth are shown. To efficiently compute the slopes and color gradients for each triangle, some implementation aspects on division and multiplication pipelines are discussed. The Setup for Triangle Rasterization Anders Kugler University of Tübingen - Computer Graphics Laboratory (1) (1) Universität Tübingen Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik Graphisch-Interaktive Systeme Auf der Morgenstelle 10 D-72076 Tübingen - Germany email: kugler@gris.uni-t...