hidden surface removal

references

• recommended
  • Edwin Earl Catmull. 1974. A Subdivision Algorithm for Computer Display of Curved Surfaces. Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of Utah. AAI7504786. (chapter 5)
  • Henry Fuchs, Zvi M. Kedem, and Bruce F. Naylor. 1980. On visible surface generation by a priori tree structures. In Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '80). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 124-133. (ncsu)
  • Haines, E. Videos 38 (Painter's) to 44 (ZBuffering) and 109 (Z-Fighting) to 110 of Udacity's Interactive 3D Graphics course.
  • Marshner & Shirley. (2016). Chapter 8.2.3, Using a Z-buffer & Chapter 12.4, BSP trees for visibility. Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, AK Peters. (ncsu)
• optional
  • Kevin Weiler and Peter Atherton. 1977. Hidden surface removal using polygon area sorting. In Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH '77). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 214-222. (ncsu)

videos

• classic hidden surface removal
• quake 2 bsp

demos

• java
  • BSP demo (cool!)
• javascript
  • Eck: HSR on vs off
  • Brown
    • transparency (& depth)
  • Haines
    • correct
    • fixed object order
    • front to back
    • z-fighting
    • z-fighting fixed