A depth buffer, also known as a z-buffer, is a type of data buffer used in computer graphics to represent depth information of objects in 3D space from...

irregular Z-buffer is an algorithm designed to solve the visibility problem in real-time 3-d computer graphics. It is related to the classical Z-buffer in that...

A stencil buffer is an extra data buffer, in addition to the color buffer and Z-buffer, found on modern graphics hardware. The buffer is per pixel and...

a Z-buffer for a complex scene. Consequently, in contemporary interactive graphics applications, the Z-buffer has become ubiquitous. The Z-buffer allows...

This would cause them to have near-similar or identical values in the z-buffer, which keeps track of depth. This then means that when a specific pixel...

The term is related (and may be analogous) to depth buffer, Z-buffer, Z-buffering, and Z-depth. The "Z" in these latter terms relates to a convention that...

resolution many times over the Z-buffer, with a moderate increase in cost. The A-buffer method is a descendant of the well known Z-buffer, which provides good quality...

of three mechanisms: Z compression The Z-buffer is stored in a lossless compressed format to minimize the Z-Buffer bandwidth as Z read or writes are taking...

graphics, Z-order was applied on a per-polygon basis to avoid using Z-buffer, which was considered expensive at the time. In modern 3D graphics, Z-order is...

Z-buffer can also suffer from artifacts due to precision errors (also known as Z-fighting). Coverage buffers (C-buffer) and surface buffer (S-buffer)...