Re: Question on transparent camera transformed objects.

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

James W. Walker wrote:

>>I know you're keen to get a new sorting algorithm in place, but the
>>problem is the proposed change (a centroid sort) fixes your case but
>>makes others worse. In which case we're just swapping one problem for
>>another, and we'll be having this conversation again in 6 months. :-)
>
>Oops.  You must not be paying attention to the CVS list.

Sorry, my mail has been getting out of control recently. :-)


>I checked in that change on Saturday.  It's true that this is a
>tradeoff, but I would argue that the bad cases of the centroid sort
>are neither as bad nor as likely as the bad cases of the old
>algorithm, and the centroid sort is also much simpler.

OK, lets go with that approach for now then - the other transparency
issues will still stand (the state stuff), so I suspect this code will
need more work along the way.


-dair
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