From: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro 3D : Sorting Polygons
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 16:43:30 -0700
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Tudor wrote:
> 
> ellman AT xs4all DOT nl wrote:
> > Alternative approaches are to use the Painter's algorithm or Z buffering.
> What is the Painter's algorithm, if you don't mind?

Painting the items back-to-front.  All you have to do is order
the things to be drawn by distance and draw everything.  If
there are lots of overlaps, this gets wasteful, since you end
up drawing lots of pixels multiple times.  But it's easy to
code.

Tim Bird