CHAPTER6Advanced Animation Techniques
The goal for this chapter is to learn techniques to cope with two major issues that arise often in animation projects. The first is managing large worlds where the polygon count may painfully slow down the rendering pipeline. The programmer can help ease the logjam by pre-filtering objects lying outside the camera's field of view. This process is called frustum culling and we describe how to do it by means of space partitioning in Section 6.1. The related process of occlusion culling, where objects blocked from the camera's view by other objects are filtered, is the topic of Section 6.2. This section discusses, in particular, occlusion queries for the purpose of occlusion culling, as well as so-called conditional ...
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