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Back-Face Culling
    Removes faces of closed (oriented manifold) objects
    that are facing away from the eye point.
    Simple test based on the normal of each face.
    Could be done in three ways:
        View-direction culling
          (done after projection)
        Oriented-face culling
          (done at triangle set-up)
        Viewpoint culling
          (can be done anywhere)
    O(n)

Painters Algorithm
    Sort triangles by their depth
      (min, max, centroid)
    Subdivide cycle overlaps or intersecting triangles
    O(n log n)
Lecture 15   Slide 2   6.837 Fall '00