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Zbuffer — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 00.2500.5000.7501-10123distance from the eye — log₁₀ metresfraction of the buffer's codes used uphalf the codes by 0.20 ma linear map, for comparisonnear 0.1 m, far 1000 mharmonic mean 0.20 m against arithmetic 500 m

    The precision a depth buffer has left

    Depth is stored as an affine function of one over the distance, so half of a buffer's codes are spent before the harmonic mean of the near and far planes — twenty centimetres out of a kilometre. The resolution goes as the square of the distance, and the fix that works is not more bits.

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