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Stencil buffer

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 works on integer values, usually with a depth of one byte per pixel. The Z-buffer and stencil buffer often share the same area in the RAM of the graphics hardware.

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Architecture

Stencil test

Z-fighting

Shadow volume

Reflections

Planar Shadows

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Stencil buffer

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples64
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

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Stencil buffer

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related to Planar Shadows · 13
Stencil buffer → All, Allow, Another, Disable, Draw, Edit, Enable, For, In, Increase, See, The, While
related to Spatial shadows · 11
Stencil buffer → Draw, Each, For, If, Lock, Stencil, There, This, Unlock, Using, Z-buffer
has application · 9
Stencil buffer → Another, Boolean, Constructive Solid Geometry, CSG, SOLiD, Specifically, The Center, This, Z-buffer
related to Architecture · 8
Stencil buffer → Another, Any, Boolean, Permedia II, Stencil, The, Z-buffer, Z-buffers
related to Shadow volume · 7
Stencil buffer → Carmack's Reverse, Doom, Frank Crow, It, Shadow, The, They
related to Stencil test · 7
Stencil buffer → If, Otherwise, Per-pixel, Similarly, Stencil, The, This
related to Reflections · 6
Stencil buffer → Depth, Draw, In, Reflection, The, Z-buffer
see also · 2
Stencil buffer → Shadow, Z-buffering
is a · 1
Stencil buffer → extra data buffer

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stencil buffer test depth z-buffer used scene shadows shadow value volume part passes plane color graphics rendering function light pixel

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stencil bufferis aextra data buffer0.90text
Stencil bufferhas applicationSpecifically0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationThe Center0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationThis0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationAnother0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationConstructive Solid Geometry0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationCSG0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationZ-buffer0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationBoolean0.60section
Stencil bufferhas applicationSOLiD0.60section
Stencil bufferrelated to ArchitectureThe0.60section
Stencil bufferrelated to ArchitectureZ-buffer0.60section

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