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by **Christoph Riede** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

Any litarature i found on occlusion culling is about doing it
dynamically i. e. the camera moves, see which polygon occludes which
part of the world.

In my application i've got a lot of polys, which are never or very
unlikely visible (i. e. completely inside a set of opaque polys).

Could you please give me any Ideas, literature or web pointers to
something like "global occlusion culling". Or should i better try to do
it the other way round, i. e find the set(s) of polys, which enclose a
voulume possibly containing other objects?

Thanks for any help!

Christoph

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by **Steve Mart** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

>Any litarature i found on occlusion culling is about doing it
>dynamically i. e. the camera moves, see which polygon occludes which
>part of the world.
>In my application i've got a lot of polys, which are never or very
>unlikely visible (i. e. completely inside a set of opaque polys).
>Could you please give me any Ideas, literature or web pointers to
>something like "global occlusion culling". Or should i better try to do
>it the other way round, i. e find the set(s) of polys, which enclose a
>voulume possibly containing other objects?

If your main concern is objects inside other objects, then I'd say the
best way to handle that would be through a hierarchy. Ie: If you're
outside an object draw it, if you're inside, draw its children (or
subordinates or whatever you wanna call them). On the other hand if
your enclosing object has holes in it that you can see through
sometimes, your best bet would be portal rendering.

Steve Marton
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