Occlusion culling

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Occlusion culling is a process of removing objects hidden behind other objects (and therefore reducing the number of primitives to be rendered).

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There are two interesting papers describing algorithms in this area: Zhang 98 and Wang, Agarwal, Har-Peled 00

Gamasutra has a feature devoted to occlusion culling.

Occlusion culling

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