Very Computer

does anyone have the actual experience on occlusion culling? is it possible
to apply z-buffer test on oc
to obtain real-time rendering?

I did a really fast OC for CMU.  What I did was to just create an array
representing the 360 degree circle.  Then calculate the number of angles
through which a given surface lay.  Takes only two passes.  Once through
the polygons to map them onto the circle's surface, and once to display
the mapped polygons.

This worked out really nicely because the more precision you want, the
smaller the increments in the circle's degrees.  It turns out that if
you increment by only 1/4 of a degree most things work out quite well.

Cavets:  We were using rather large polygons to represent walls in a
coal mine, no transparencies, and things tended to be rather box like.
Think of DOOM - that kind of culling so the mine program could run
rather quickly.

I hope this helps.  :-)

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