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Order independent transparency

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Methods for order independent transparency

Additive Transparency

Take all the transparent colors and add them up. Addition is commutative so the order doesn't matter.

Weighted Blended Order Independent Transparency

See http://casual-effects.blogspot.com/2014/03/weighted-blended-order-independent.html

This builds upon additive transparency with two buffers:

  1. Accum buffer: weighted average of all premultiplied-alpha RGB colors.
  2. Revealage buffer: buffer representing how much of the opaque background is visible through the transparent layers.

Dual Depth Peeling

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/10/opengl/src/dual_depth_peeling/doc/DualDepthPeeling.pdf

Stochastic Transparency

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2011-08_stochastic-transparency


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