Visible-surface determination (part I), Z-buffer

CS 248 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
Spring Quarter, 1995
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, May 23

Table of contents:

• Introduction
  • Definition of the visible-surface problem
  • Classifying visible-surface algorithms
  • The input stream
• Zbuffer algorithm
  • Basic loop
  • Computing Z
  • Complexity
  • Typical performance
  • Other issues
  • Artifacts
  • Extensions
• Scanline algorithm: Watkins

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