This is Loren Carpenter's further development of the Z-buffer concept in 1984 as an "anti-aliased hidden surface method." The A-buffer technique was intended to overcome the main disadvantage of Catmull's earlier Z-buffer method, which had the tendency to produce aliasing artifacts.
This is Loren Carpenter's further development of the Z-buffer concept in 1984 as an "anti-aliased hidden surface method." The A-buffer technique was intended to overcome the main disadvantage of Catmull's earlier Z-buffer method, which had the tendency to produce aliasing artifacts.
