Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS symposium on Graphics hardware

Welcome to Graphics Hardware 2006 the premier venue for research and development on high-performance graphics hardware and its applications. This is the 21st event in a sequence of highly successful workshops and symposiums organized in cooperation with Eurographics and SIGGRAPH taking place September 3rd and 4th in Vienna, Austria. For the 6th year this event has been co-located with either two premier computer graphics conferences SIGGRAPH or Eurographics, alternating every year between the US and Europe. Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics hardware. The event, held annually since 1986, offers a unique perspective on graphics hardware by combining discussions and constructive criticism of innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. It is an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year we continued the steady increase of submissions for Graphics Hardware with a total of 45 paper submissions. Every one of the papers was carefully considered by our 36 program committee members plus additional reviewers that faced the difficult task of selecting the best papers from a high-quality pool of submissions. At the end 14 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and for publication in these proceedings.