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From: arch_ems@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Z-Buffer Edge effects
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Date: 1 Sep 89 19:38:42 GMT
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>Real systems get around this problem by using backface elimination
>for all closed objects.  The strongest reason to use backface
>elimination (in my opinion) is to get rid of the pixels that
>occasionally show through, not for the speed advantage you get
>through not having to draw all of the back facing polygons.

Was this last point a smiley?  Isn't there a significant speed
advantage to not having to draw all of the back facing polygons?

--Ted

Edward Shelton, Project Manager
ARCH Development Corporation
arch_ems@gsbacd.uchicago.edu