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Re: Voting Comments
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Thu, 20 May 1999 16:31:22 GMT
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <37441788.505228@lugnet.com>...
> 
> Order of drawing doesn't matter, except for coincident objects.
> 
> For transparent surfaces vs. edges, it matters even less: the edge must
> 'show through' the surface, or the renderer isn't working right.
> 
> LDraw and LDLite both display transparent surfaces by skipping every other
> pixel, allowing the underlying features to show through.
> 
> Steve

Then the rendering *could* be speeded up by resorting everything 'outside-in'?
(Smaller number of pixels to change)

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Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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(...) Yes, that reordering will render just fine. I don't know how much it will speed up rendering. It would be interesting to find out. Steve (27 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) Order of drawing doesn't matter, except for coincident objects. For transparent surfaces vs. edges, it matters even less: the edge must 'show through' the surface, or the renderer isn't working right. LDraw and LDLite both display transparent (...) (27 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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