Method and system for providing data to a graphics chip in a graphics display system

Abstract

An API is provided to feed multiple data objects, wherever originated or located at the time of operation, to a 3D graphics chip simultaneously or in parallel. Multiple containers may be fed to a 3D graphics chip memory at the same time. In the case where data is being transmitted to a graphics chip memory, wherein the data includes the same spatial position of pixel(s), but only the orientation or color is changing, the data may be loaded into two separate containers, with a header description understood by the graphics chip and implemented by the graphics API, whereby a single copy of the position data can be loaded into one container, and the changing color or orientation data may be loaded into a second container. Thus, when received by the graphics chip, the data is loaded correctly into register space and processed according to the header description.

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