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Subject: 
Glass... to BFC or not to BFC?
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:42:25 GMT
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When authoring "glass" parts, should I include BFC statements?

It seems like we wouldn't want to cull because all surfaces should be
visible from any direction.  On the other hand, BFC is a performance
optimization and transparent surfaces are generally a bigger perf hit than
other surfaces.

--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com



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  Re: Glass... to BFC or not to BFC?
 
(...) They require a different approach to optimization - visibility culling, not backface culling. You're right in thinking they should not be BFC. The exception I think might be a full box - which gets composited twice in a polygon system like (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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