Painter's Algorithm

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Sort primitives by depth and draw back to front, letting later writes cover earlier ones. Needs no extra memory and fails on any arrangement without a consistent order.

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

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G painters-algorithm Painter's Algorithm rasterization Rasterization painters-algorithm->rasterization z-buffer Z-Buffer z-buffer->painters-algorithm cyclically overlapping polygons have no correct draw order

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