painter's algorithm

English

Etymology

Referring to the technique of painting distant parts of a scene before parts which are nearer and thereby covering some areas of distant parts.

Proper noun

painter's algorithm

  1. (computer graphics) A simple rendering technique that sorts all the polygons in a scene by their depth and then paints them in that order, from farthest to closest.
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