A method, apparatus and article of manufacture are provided for handling
both scalar and vector components during graphics processing. To
accomplish this, vertex data is received in the form of vectors after
which vector operations are performed on the vector vertex data. Next,
scalar operations may be executed on an output of the vector operations,
thereby rendering vertex data in the form of scalars. Such scalar vertex
data may then be converted to vector vertex data for performing vector
operations thereon.
