Advances in Computer Graphics Hardware IV : Springer : 9783642763007 : 3642763006 : 22 Nov 2011 : EUROGRAPHICS workshops on Graphics hardware have now become an established forum for an exchange of information con­ cerning the latest developments in this field of growing importance. The first workshop took place during EG'86 in Lisbon. All parti­ cipants in this event considered it a very rewarding workshop to be repeated at future EG conferences. This view was reinforced at the EG'87 Hardware Workshop in Amsterdam which firmly esta­ blished the need for and a high interest in such a colloquium of technical discussion in this specialist area within the annual EG conference. The third EG Hardware Workshop took place in Nice in 1988 and this volume is a record of the fourth workshop at EG'89 in Hamburg. The material in this book contains papers representing a com­ prehensive record of the contributions to the 1989 workshop. The first part considers Algorithms and Architectures of graphic