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Hidden Surface Removal
Topic		Author	Description
	3D Backface Culling [Added: 7/5/2000]	Jeff Weeks	Explains what backface culling is and why it's used.
	A Compact Method for Backface Culling [Added: 3/24/2000]	Osnat Levi, Ronen Zohar, Haim Barad, Alex Klimovitski	Introduces a method of front-end culling for improved performance.
	Binary Space Partitioning Trees and Polygon Removal in Real Time 3D Rendering [Added: 2/16/2002]	Samuel Ranta-Eskola	This article documents the author's work developing a BSP-tree engine with physics, radiosity and network optimization.
	Geometry Culling in 3D Engines [Added: 10/9/2000]	Pietari Laurila	Takes a look at all the major visibility culling algorithms in use today, including view frustum, occlusion, and contribution culling.
	Occlusion Culling Algorithms [Added: 7/10/2000]	Tomas Möller and Eric Haines	From Chapter 7 of Real Time Rendering, this discusses the class of acceleration schemes known as the occlusion culling techniques.
	Quake Hidden Surface Removal [Added: 8/22/1999]	Derek Nickel	Covers how Michael Abrash handled hidden surfaces in the original Quake.

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